The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Aromatherapy, inhalation method using bergamot essential oil on stress in middle-aged woman.
The study design was a one-group pretest-posttest design. The subject were The inhalation method ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Aromatherapy, inhalation method using bergamot essential oil on stress in middle-aged woman.
The study design was a one-group pretest-posttest design. The subject were The inhalation method of bergamot essential oil was to drop 3 drops of oil on tissue at 09, 13, 19, before bed for week.
The scale used in the study was the stress scale of Park, Sun Young (1999).45 middle-aged woman with stress. The study was carried out from August 5, to October 5, 2001.
The study data was analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation and Wilcoxon signed ranks test using SPSS/PC+WIN 10.0 program.
The result were as follows ;
1. The Score of physical stress scale was significantly decresed after use of inhalation of bergarmot essential oil.
2. The Score of psychological stress scale was significantly decresed after use of inhalation of bergarmot essential oil.
In Conculsion, the results of this study suggests that inhalation method using bergarmot essential oil is positively supported in stress reduction in middle-aged women.