Anxiety, Pain
Conditions
Brief summary
Preoperative anxiety is considered a potential and preventable risk factor for postoperative complications.
Detailed description
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
Interventions
DRUGLavender Oil
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
Sponsors
Assiut University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Intervention model description
We hypothesized that the use of lavender aromatherapy before surgery would reduce preintervntion of radiofrequency anxiety as assessed by the Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) questionnaire
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
40 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* adult patients with knee osteoarthritis * scheduled for genicular nerve radiofrequency
Exclusion criteria
* Allergy to lavender * psychological disorders * upper respiratory tract illness
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| change of Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory | preintervention, 15 minutes postintervention | 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. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| change of Pain visual analog scale | Preintervention, 15 minutes postintervention | change of Pain visual analog scale, Scale from 0 ( no pain ) up to 10 (worst experienced pain) |
Countries
Egypt
Outcome results
None listed