The Effects of Providing Lavender Inhalation Therapy on Anxiety and Alleviation of Pain before Burn Dressings

Abstract

Purpose: This study was conducted to examine the effect of aroma inhalation therapy with Lavender for burn patients during burn dressings: anxiety, pain, rate of administration of analgesia and vital signs in burn patients.Methods: A quasi experimental design with a nonequivalent control group pretest-post test was used. Participants in this study were 58 burn patients who were admitted to a S city burn treatment center for burn dressing (28 in the experimental group and 30 in the control group) in S city. Data were collected from July 1, to September 30, 2012. The experimental group was provided the lavender inhale therapy (repeated for five breaths) 30 minutes before burn dressing. The data were analyzed using <i>x</i><sup>2</sup> test, Fisher’s exact test and an two sample t-test with SPSS/WIN 22.0.Results: There were significant differences in state anxiety (F=9.08, <i>p</i>=.004), diastolic blood pressure (F=6.57, <i>p</i>=.013), pain VAS (F=18.71, <i>p</i><.001) in the experimental group compared to the control group.Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that lavender inhale therapy is an effective method to reduce anxiety, diastolic blood pressure and pain during burn dressings.

Effects of aromatherapy with Rosa damascene and lavender on pain and anxiety of burn patients: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…Table 2 lists the features of the interventions in the studies that were incorporated. Overall, the results of five studies 45‐49 showed that aromatherapy with lavender and RD reduced pain. Additionally, in three studies 36,45,48 findings demonstrated a reduction in anxiety with lavender and RD aromatherapy in burn patients.…”

“…The entire texts of 41 research studies were then assessed in the following stage: 21 studies were eliminated due to problems with their designs and unsatisfactory results, and 14 studies were eliminated due to a lack of necessary data. Finally, this systematic review and meta‐analysis included six studies 36,45‐49 …”

“…As shown in Table 1, a total of 586 burn patients were included in six studies 36,45‐49 . The mean age of the participants was 37.28 (SD = 10.27) years.…”

“…The mean duration of the studies was 36.80 weeks. In addition, the duration of the intervention was reported in all studies 36,45‐49 . All included studies 36,45‐49 had a control group.…”

“…The effects of lavender on anxiety were not reported because the included study did not measure them. Only one quasi‐experiment study showed lavender significantly decreased anxiety in burn patients 48 …”