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Levender Aromatherapy Improve Quality of Sleep in Eldery People

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Sleep is a basic human need, characterized by minimal physical activity, change in physiological process of the body and decrease respon from external stimulus. Most of the elderly have high risk to suffer sleep problem because of some factors. Aromatherapy is a therapy using essential oil which produces comfortable efffect, more steady emotion and feeling,. This research was aimed to identify the effectivity of Lavender (Lavendula L) Aromatherapy in improving quality of sleep of the elderly in Panti Werdha Malang. A quasi experiment study was implemented with randomized control group pretest posttest using 18 subjects divided into two groups and treatment. The sleep quality was measured by interview developed based on PSQI (pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) The datawere then analyzed using Wilcoxon test and Mann-Whitney test. A signifiant improvement of sleep quality score was identified in treatment group (3,89, p= 0,07) but not in the control group (0,78; p=0,317). These improvement is significantly different between the two groups (p=0,001). Iit can be concluded that Lavender aromatherapy is significantly improve the quality of sleep in elderly people.

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No. Panggil

Jurnal Kedokteran Brawijaya:25(2)83-86

Penerbit

Malang : Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Brawijaya., 2009

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Bahasa

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0216-9347

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AGED
SLEEP
LAVANDULA
AROMATHERAPY

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