Effects of Lavender Oil on Postoperative Pain, Sleep Quality and Mood

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-01-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This project will evaluate the integration of lavender essential oil in surgical patients during the perioperative and postoperative phase of care. The study will assess patients' pain, sleep quality, and mood. The goal is to support that lavender oil will decrease pain scores and narcotic use, increase sleep quality, and decrease anxiety by improving overall patient satisfaction and supporting their natural sense of well being. This research project will help support the use of complementary medicine in a hospital setting. The increased awareness and use of complementary medicine in a hospital setting will strengthen the patient centered care model that all hospitals strive to achieve.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Scott Hollenbeck, MD
• Collaborators: doTERRA; dōTERRA International

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women undergoing any form of breast reconstruction therapy

• Ages 18-85

• At least a one night stay in hospital after surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Use of sleeping aide drugs

• Use of benzodiazepines

• History of any of the following: asthma, eczema, allergy to flowers, smell disorders

• Sensitivity to lavender oil or any of its ingredients

• Pregnant women will be excluded from the study. During routine preoperative testing the patient's menstrual history or urine pregnancy test will be performed to identify any patient who is pregnant.