Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 運動保健研究所 === 105 === Purpose:The purpose of this research is to examine about the effect on alleviating the mental stress and improving the quality of life for school female nurses by applying pure tea tree essential oil balm for 4 weeks.
Methodology:Test takers in the research are 50 school female nurses in total. They are working as among the public elementary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools and vocational high schools from Hsin Chuang District, Wu Gu District, and Taishan District in New Taipei City.
Test takers are divided in two groups-- 25 persons in the experimental group and 25 persons in the control group. Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan version are indicators of mental stress alleviation.
The experimental group takers apply pure essential oil balm from 1st to 4th week, and they have to fill in PSS and WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan version before the 1st week when experiment starts, also the 5th week and the 9th week when experiment finished.
The control group takers apply pure tea tree essential oil balm from 5th to 9th week, and they have to fill in PSS and WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan version before the 4th week when experiment starts and the 9th week when experiment finished. In addition, in 1st, 5th, and 9th week.
By the figures presentation of PSS, WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan version, we can analyze if applying a four-week pure tea tree essential oil balm effect on alleviating the mental stress for school female nurses.
The data of this research is analyzed by SPSS20.0. It analyzed the relationship between test takers’ basic attributes and the pre-measured mental stress and life quality according to independent sample t test and one-way analysis of variance while paired samples t test (paired t test) analyzed the different stress perception at the period of before and after applying pure tea tree essential oil balm.
Results:1. The basic attributes of the subjects and the measured pressure only with (1) working years (2) the type of school size (3) the current life satisfaction has a significant relationship. 2. The two groups of school nurses in the four weeks after applying pure tea tree essential oil balm, the pressure awareness questionnaire score significantly reduced and significantly improved the quality of life, both significant differences. 3. The pre-experimental group in the use of four weeks after the application of unilateral tea tree ointment to stop wiping,and then continue to observe the four weeks after the PSS score, quality of life scores and pre-test were no significant difference.
Conclusion: This research shows that applying pure tea tree essential oil balm for 4 weeks, the school female nurses can effectively reduce the stress perception, improve the quality of life, then achieve the effect on alleviating the mental stress,but the effect can not be extended for four weeks.
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