Preoperative anxiety is considered a potential and preventable risk factor for postoperative complications.
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
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
60
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
Emad Zarief Kamel Said
Asyut, Egypt
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.
Time frame: preintervention, 15 minutes postintervention
change of Pain visual analog scale
change of Pain visual analog scale, Scale from 0 ( no pain ) up to 10 (worst experienced pain)
Time frame: Preintervention, 15 minutes postintervention
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