An interventional study of Aromatherapy blend and Duration of effectiveness of the essential oil blend in Post-operative Nausea, sponsored by Balanced Health plus. Status unknown at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-01-15.
Sponsored by Balanced Health plus · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
The purpose of this follow up study is to determine the duration of action regarding aromatherapy to treat nausea occurring postoperatively.
The primary hypothesis of the study is that post-operative patients who meet eligibility criteria and report nausea and receive a blend of 45% ginger, 25% peppermint, 5% spearmint, and 25% cardamom essential oils while using a nasal clip to facilitate inhalation will have more relief from nausea than those who receive normal saline inhalation using the same delivery system.
The secondary purposes of the study is to determine the duration of effectiveness of the essential oil blend as compared to the saline in the relief of post-operative nausea and to investigate the degree of comfort participants report using the nasal clip delivery system for aromatherapy.
822 studies on the registry are indexed under Nausea; 104 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 300 is above the median of 115 across 703 interventional studies indexed under Nausea.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Saline and nasal clip inhaled post-operatively
Other: Duration of effectiveness of the essential oil blend · Other: Participant comfort using the nasal clip delivery system
Aromatherapy blend and nasal clip inhaled post-operatively
Other: Aromatherapy blend · Other: Duration of effectiveness of the essential oil blend · Other: Participant comfort using the nasal clip delivery system
A blend of 45% ginger, 25% peppermint, 5% spearmint, and 25% cardamom essential oils
Evidence of effectiveness of tested aromatherapy blend in reducing symptoms of post-operative nausea as measured by patient self-report using Likert-type scale measure immediately to one-day post-operative.
Comfort of participants using nasal clip delivery system for aromatherapy will be measured by self-report using Likert-type scale immediately to one-day post-operative.
Duration of effectiveness of the essential oil blend
Evidence of effectiveness of tested aromatherapy blend in reducing symptoms of post-operative nausea as measured by patient self-report using Likert-type scale measure.
Time frame: Immediately to one-day post-operative
Participant comfort using the nasal clip delivery system
Comfort of participants using nasal clip delivery system for aromatherapy will be measured by self-report using Likert-type scale.
Time frame: Immediately post-op to one-day post-op
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