Investigating the effect of aromatherapy with geranium essence on the quality of sleep in the third trimester of pregnant women referring to comprehensive health centers in Rafsanjan \

Determining the effect of aromatherapy with geranium essential oil on sleep quality in the third trimester of pregnant women referring to comprehensive health centers in Rafsanjan in 1403.

A controlled, double-blind, randomized, phase 3 clinical trial with parallel groups on 80 patients. The allocation of subjects to the intervention and control groups will be in a randomized block permutation.

In this clinical trial, convenience sampling will be conducted from the research population, which is pregnant women referring to comprehensive health centers who have sleep disorders. The sample size was determined to be 40 people in each group. The allocation of individuals to two intervention and control groups will be block randomization. Demographic information questionnaires, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire will be completed by both groups before and after the intervention. The experimental group will put 2 drops of geranium essence on a towel for three consecutive nights a week for a month and inhale it for ten minutes, and then hang the towel soaked in the desired scent on their clothes or place it near their pillow. The control group will receive placebo (almond oil) in this study.

Iranian nationality؛ gestational age 30 weeks or later؛ score more than 5 on the sleep quality questionnaire؛ having written informed consent

The intervention group inhaled 2 drops of geranium essential oil for three consecutive nights per week for one month. The control group received placebo in the same manner as the intervention group.

quality of sleep

The allocation of individuals to the two intervention and control groups will be in the form of a random permutation block. For this purpose, we will use 8 blocks of 10. In each block, 5 cases will be A and 5 cases will be B. In this way, we will first prepare 10 completely identical cards or sheets. The letter A is written on 5 sheets and the letter B is written on the other 5 sheets. Each person who enters the study will be assigned one of the 10 sheets completely randomly, this process will continue until the 10 cards are finished (10 people enter the study), and this process will be carried out for the next ten people and the next ... until the eighth 10 people, in this way, finally, all people will be placed in two groups completely randomly and in equal numbers (40 people).

The participant is kept blind to which drug they are using in this study, and the data analyst will also be sent the control and intervention groups as A and B by the researcher.