Effect of aromatherapy with lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) in school children anxiety.

Autor: Botello-Jacuinde, M. G., García-Campos, M. L., Jiménez-García, S. N., Beltrán-Campos, V.
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Zdroj: Revista Biociências; 2019 Supplement, Vol. 6, p4-4, 1p
Abstrakt: The objective was to determine the effect of aromatherapy with lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) on the anxiety of school children. Quantitative, explanatory, quasi-experimental study, 154 students from 6th grade were surveyed, degree, distributed in two groups (n = 77 each). Anxiety was measured with the CMAS-R2 pre and post-intervention scale, which was done by saturating the atmosphere of lavender essential oil for the intervention group (GI) and water vapor for the comparison group (GC). The analysis of anxiety values showed statistically significant differences when comparing the post-intervention GI with respect to the pre-intervention GC (P = 0.0242) and between the same pre and postintervention GI (P = 0.0046). In conclusion, the intervention with lavender essential oil managed to reduce anxiety in the GI. However, the GI and GC are not different after the intervention, which could be due to the type of population studied, where the behavior of the school is determined by several factors, which increases the variability of the group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index