In this group, application is made with chamomile, lavender and neroli oil.

In this group, application is made with lavender oil.

In this group, application is made only with almond oil.

20 patients were included in this group and aromatherapy was applied once a day, for a total of 30 minutes, for three days, with a mixture of lavender, medicinal chamomile, and neroli oil (2 drops of lavender oil, 4 drops of medicinal chamomile, 6 drops of neroli oil in 20 ml of sweet almond oil). Massage is planned.

In the "Patient Introduction Form" prepared by the researcher based on the literature in order to obtain information about the characteristics of the patients who will constitute the sample, the patients' medical diagnosis, age, gender, chronic diseases, length of stay in intensive care, use of analgesic, sedative and hypnotic drugs used, normal sleep hours at night were included. There are questions about (sleep duration, daytime sleep, sleep hours, sleep aids used, etc.).

The patient follow-up form was created by the researcher and will include the visual comparison sleep scale follow-up results, the effects of the application (whether side effects develop, its effect on the application area, the patient's condition, etc.) and the dosage of the hypnotic and sedative drugs the patient took in the intensive care unit during the study. The sleep score results of the patients will be recorded on the patient follow-up form by the nurses who collected the data of the study the morning after the application (08), and the effects of the application will also be recorded by the researcher.

It was first developed by Snyder-Halpern and Verran (1988) in 1987 to evaluate the sleep quality of sick and healthy individuals. The scale consists of 15 questions categorized under three subscales: 'discomfort' (interruptions and delays in sleep), 'effectiveness' (how good sleep rejuvenates the individual) and 'completion' (napping). Disturbance questions include: 1) waking in the middle of sleep, 2) waking after sleep onset, 3) movement during sleep, 4) firmness of sleep, 5) quality of discomfort, 6) sleep latency, and 7) quality of latency. Efficacy questions include: 1) recovery after awakening, 2) subjective sleep quality, 3) sleep adequacy assessment, 4) total sleep time, and 5) total sleep time, calculated by adding total sleep time and waking after sleep onset. Each question is scored using a 100 mm visual analogue scale. For the 'disruption' and 'completion' subscales, higher scores indicate sleep disturbance and lower scores indicate better sleep.