Comparison of the effect of aromatherapy with aromatic geranium and crocus sativius essential oil on premenstrual syndrome in female employees of Gonabad University of Medical Sciences.

Comparison of the effect of aromatherapy with aromatic geranium and crocus sativius essential oil on premenstrual syndrome in female employees of Gonabad University of Medical Sciences.

Clinical trial of three groups with a control group, parallelized, single-blind, randomized, in two phases before and after the study, with a sample size of 99 people who will be randomly divided into three groups of 3.

Setting and samples: female employees of Gonabad University of Medical Sciences. Intervention groups will be treated with 0.5% herbal essences (saffron and aromatic geranium). Aromatherapy will be performed by people one week before menstruation (for 5 days) twice a day for 5 minutes each time in 2 consecutive menstrual cycles, in such a way that the participants and cotton soaked with 10 drops of geranium essential oil twice a day A 30 cm distance from the nose will be connected to the clothes of the samples and they will inhale the scent for 5 minutes with normal breathing. In the control group, a placebo (odorless sweet almond oil) will be used. After two months, the intensity of PMS is compared with the average intensity before the intervention.

Inclusion criteria: Willingness to participate in research, Limited age from 18 to 45 years, Having a history of regular menstruation, The length of menstrual days should be between 24 and 35 days. Exit criteria: Having a physical illness or taking medication; suffering from mental illness; use of antidepressants in the last few months; Taking hormonal drugs and vitamins.

Intervention group 1: using 5% essential oil of the saffron plant. Intervention group 2: using 5% essential oil of the aromatic geranium plant. Intervention group 3: placebo.

Severity of premenstrual syndrome symptoms

Gonabad University of Medical Sciences has several organizational units (headquarters, hospital, health centers and university campus). that each of these units will be considered as one floor and in the following the initial list of women employees will be the unit. Then people will be randomly selected according to the number of working women in that unit. And then they will be placed in 3 groups (scented geranium, crocus sativius, and control) by random allocation using permutation blocks with blocks of 3. 6 possible modes for blocks are as follows: ABC, BAC, CAB, ACB, BCA, CBA. Each block will be assigned a number between 1 and 6, and based on the block corresponding to the selected number, people will be assigned to the control group (A), Shadani Moatar (B) and crocus sativius (C). This will continue until the sample size (99 blocks) is completed. The symbol of randomization is a table of random numbers.

In the current study, the research units will not know about the type of medicine they will take, and people will be asked not to talk about the type of intervention. To blind the samples, essential oils will be presented in containers with the same color and shape.