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Preoperative anxiety is considered a potential and preventable risk factor for postoperative complications.
Alot of patients face fear from intervention such as radiofrequency. The group of patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis already and mostly have some sore of psychological upset, radiofrequency itself , even in the presence of good periinterventional local anesthetic infiltration, the patients suffer pain and stress. It is well evidenced that aromatherapy specially with Lavender oil offers some sort of anxiety alleviation, pain alleviation and protection against postoperative nausea and vomiting
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lavender | Active Comparator | three drops of the designated lavender will be placed on a 2-inch by 2-inch impermeable, backed gauze pad and patient was asked to inhale deeply for 5 minutes |
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| Control | No Intervention |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lavender Oil | Drug | three drops of the designated lavender will be placed on a 2-inch by 2-inch impermeable, backed gauze pad and patient was asked to inhale deeply for 5 minutes |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| change of Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory | change of Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory , There are 20 questions (I feel calm, secure, tense, strained, at ease, upset, am presently worrying over possible misfortunes, satisfied, frightened, uncomfortable, self-confident, nervous, jittery, indecisive, relaxed, content, worried, confused, steady and pleasant) where people rate their anxiety from one (not at all) to four (very much so), and scores range from 20 to 80. low anxiety is 20 to 37, moderate anxiety is 38 to 44, and high anxiety is 45 to 80. | preintervention, 15 minutes postintervention |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| change of Pain visual analog scale | change of Pain visual analog scale, Scale from 0 ( no pain ) up to 10 (worst experienced pain) | Preintervention, 15 minutes postintervention |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Emad Zarief Kamel Said | Asyut | 71111 | Egypt |
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D001008 | Anxiety Disorders |
| D010146 | Pain |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
| D009461 | Neurologic Manifestations |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
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| ID | Term |
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| C045718 | lavender oil |
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We hypothesized that the use of lavender aromatherapy before surgery would reduce preintervntion of radiofrequency anxiety as assessed by the Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) questionnaire
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