아로마요법이 정신분열병환자의 수면장애 및 스트레스 감소에 미치는 영향

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to examine the effects of aromatherapy on sleep disorder and stress among schizophrenic patients. The research that utilized the non-equivalent control group pretest-post test design was conducted on 74 patients(37in the experiment group, 37 in the control group) for a month from June to July 2005 in a hospital. With the use of the SPPS 11.0/WIN program, personal data of the subjects were analysed into frequency and the significance of the results was decided at the P value of 0.005. The paire t-Test is applied to compare and verify the scores from sleep disorder and stress. As for the aromatherapy, blended essential oil such as roman chamomile, lavender, sandalwood, and majoram at be ratio f 3;2:1:1 was vaporized using an evaporator. In order to measure sleep, a subjective questionnaire of 15 question items that was developed by Jinju Oh, Misun Song, and Sinmi Kim(1988) was used. For measuring stress, a questionnaire of 20 question items which was modified from the Psychological Well-bing Index(PWI) that was originally based on Gho-60, the Social Well-being Index, developed by Godberg. After the aromatherapy, the comparison of the scores attained from sleep and stress show a significant result of 36±5.11 on the pretest and 46.6±4.78(p=0.000) on the post test in the experiment group, on the contrary, an insignificant result of 38.8±5.02 in the pretest and 38.6±4.60 in the post test in control group. The difference in the scores for sleep between the groups shows a significant result of -2.59±1.18 0n the pretest and 7.97±1.09(p=0.000) on the post test. As for the stress score, the score shows a significant drop from 48.3±10.0 on thepretest to 36.3±8.20(p=0.000) on the posttest in the experiment group, but in the control group, there was an insignificant increase 47.8±8.10 on the pretest to 48.5±7.93 on the posttest. The difference in the stress scores between two groups was 0.43±2.12 on the pretest and 12.18±1.87(p=0.000) on the posttest. In conclusion, the research shows that an appropriat choice of aromatherapy has effects on reducing or getting rid of sleep disorder and stress. Having few adversary side effects, aromatherapy is considered as an option for health care programs from the perspective of natural healing.