The Effect of Aromatherapy on Anxiety in Patients

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Preoperative anxiety is considered a potential and preventable risk factor for postoperative complications.

Detailed Description
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Alot of patients face fear from intervention such as radiofrequency. The group of patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis already and mostly have some sore of psychological upset, radiofrequency itself , even in the presence of good periinterventional local anesthetic infiltration, the patients suffer pain and stress. It is well evidenced that aromatherapy specially with Lavender oil offers some sort of anxiety alleviation, pain alleviation and protection against postoperative nausea and vomiting

Official Title
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The Effect of Aromatherapy on Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Genicular Nerve Radiofrequency for Painful Knee Osteoarthritis

Conditions
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Anxiety, Pain

Intervention / Treatment
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* Drug: Lavender Oil


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: adult patients with knee osteoarthritis scheduled for genicular nerve radiofrequency Exclusion Criteria: Allergy to lavender psychological disorders upper respiratory tract illness

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 40 Years
Maximum Age: 70 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Interventional Model Description: We hypothesized that the use of lavender aromatherapy before surgery would reduce preintervntion of radiofrequency anxiety as assessed by the Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) questionnaire
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Active Comparator: Lavender<br>three drops of the designated lavender will be placed on a 2-inch by 2-inch impermeable, backed gauze pad and patient was asked to inhale deeply for 5 minutes | Drug: Lavender Oil<br>* three drops of the designated lavender will be placed on a 2-inch by 2-inch impermeable, backed gauze pad and patient was asked to inhale deeply for 5 minutes<br>|
| No Intervention: Control<br> | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| change of Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory | change of Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory , There are 20 questions (I feel calm, secure, tense, strained, at ease, upset, am presently worrying over possible misfortunes, satisfied, frightened, uncomfortable, self-confident, nervous, jittery, indecisive, relaxed, content, worried, confused, steady and pleasant) where people rate their anxiety from one (not at all) to four (very much so), and scores range from 20 to 80. low anxiety is 20 to 37, moderate anxiety is 38 to 44, and high anxiety is 45 to 80. | preintervention, 15 minutes postintervention | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| change of Pain visual analog scale | change of Pain visual analog scale, Scale from 0 ( no pain ) up to 10 (worst experienced pain) | Preintervention, 15 minutes postintervention |