investigating the effect of aromatherapy with lavender extract on fatigue and working memory in women with multiple sclerosis

Authors
Category Primary study
Registry of TrialsIranian Registry of Clinical Trials
Year 2019
INTERVENTION: Intervention 1: Intervention group: Lavender extract, 2 drops, twice a day, inhalation for 10 minutes? for 14 days, Kashan barij Essence company. Intervention 2: Control group: Distilled water, 2 drops, twice a day, ,inhalation for 10 minutes? for 14 days. CONDITION: Fatigue, Working Memory of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis. ; Multiple sclerosis PRIMARY OUTCOME: Fatigue severity score. Timepoint: Before and two weeks after the intervention. Method of measurement: Fatigue severity scale. Working memory. Timepoint: Before and two weeks after the intervention. Method of measurement: Active Dunnyman and Carpenter Memory test. INCLUSION CRITERIA: Desire to participate in the study age range of 20‐40 years; Education: at least diploma; MS history for at least 1 year; no history of using the aromatherapy program during the past 6 months; no prohibition on aromatherapy; no other chronic diseases; lack of allergies, migraines, asthma and other respiratory diseases; have a healthy sense of smelling that is measured using coffee.
Epistemonikos ID: 838fea387f5100c94436cb0767229a6812497929
First added on: Mar 31, 2022