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Research: ÖZLÜ and BILICAN
Listed in Issue 251
Abstract
ÖZLÜ and BILICAN 1. Assistant Professors, Department of Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey; 2. Surgical Nursing, Atatürk University Research Hospital, Department of Surgery Erzurum, Turkey conducted a study to determine the effect of aromatherapy massage upon quality of sleep and physiological parameters in surgical intensive care patients.
Background
Surgical pain is experienced by inpatients with clinical, disease-related concerns, unknown encounters after surgery, quality of sleep, restrictions in position after surgery is known to be serious. The study was conducted to determine the effect of aromatherapy massage on quality of sleep and physiological parameters in surgical intensive care patients.
Methodology
This is an experimental study. The sample of this study consisted of 60 patients who were divided into two groups as experimental group and control group including 30 patients in each one. The participants were postoperative patients, absent complications, who were unconscious and extubated. A data collection form on personal characteristics of the patients, a registration form on their physical parameters and the Richards-Campbell Sleep Scale (RCSQ) were used to collect the data of the study.
Results
The Richards-Campbell Sleep Scale indicated that while the experimental group had a mean score of 53.80 ± 13.20, the control group had a mean score of 29.08 ± 9.71 and there was a statistically significant difference between mean scores of the groups. In a comparison of physiologic parameters, only diastolic blood pressure measuring between parameters in favour of an assembly as a statistically significant difference was detected.
Conclusion
Results of the study showed that aromatherapy massage enhanced the sleep quality of patients in a surgical intensive care unit and resulted in some positive changes in their physiological parameters.
References
Özlü ZK1, Bilican P2. Effects Of Aromatherapy Massage On The Sleep Quality And Physiological Parameters Of Patients In A Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med: 14(3):83-88. doi: 10.21010/ajtcam.v14i3.9. eCollection 2017. Mar 1 2017.
Comment
The above research demonstrated that aromatherapy massage improved sleep in patients in a surgical intensive care unit.
