Effects of lavender essential oil inhalation on nurses’ job stress

authors:

avatar Ali ASghar Ghods , avatar Nemat Sotodeh Asl ORCID , * , avatar Mohsen Emadi khalaf , avatar Majid Mirmohamadkhani

Koomesh: Vol.19, issue 2; 421-428
published online: July 06, 2017
article type: Research Article
received: September 03, 2016
accepted: December 06, 2016

how to cite: Ghods A A, Sotodeh Asl N, Emadi khalaf M, Mirmohamadkhani M. Effects of lavender essential oil inhalation on nurses’ job stress. koomesh. 2017;19(2):e151095. 

Abstract

Introduction: Nurses are confronted continuously with pain, suffering, injuries, deaths and experience high job stress in their workplace. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of lavender oil inhalation on nurses;#39 job stress. Materials and Methods: In this clinical trial study, 78 nurses who working in social security hospitals in 2015 were selected by convenience method.In this way, nurses were selected with randomized block in two groups, lavender and control. Participants were used lavender or sesame oil for two hours in the early hours of shifts and during four weeks. Job stress were determined and compared in both groups before the intervention, as well as the second and fourth weeks by 34 Gry- Taft Anderson job stress questionnaire. Data were analyzed and compared by descriptive- analytical statistics. Results: The mean of nurses;#39 job stress had 87.09 ± 17.41 job stress and had no significant difference in both groups at the end of the second week of aromatherapy (P=0.304), but this difference was significant at the end of the fourth week (P=0.003).The results showed that after four weeks using lavender essential oil with a mean of 8.89 ± 2.38 than to the first stage, it has been effective in reducing job stress (P=0.002). Aromatherapy had no effect in the control group (P

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