A Case Study of Aromatherapy to Relieve the Sleep Quality and Emotional Stress-Using the Married Women in Middle Age as an Example

• Main Authors: CHENG, WEN-HSIN, 鄭雯馨
• Other Authors: LAI, WEN-YING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s5w884

碩士 === 正修科技大學 === 化妝品與時尚彩妝研究所 === 106 === Taiwan’s traditional society regards women as one of the important members of the family and delivers family responsibilities to women. Most women continue to work after marriage. Under the pressure of multiple roles, women's physical and mental health is greatly affected. Many studies have been conducted for specific occupations, but few middle-aged married women are the main research subjects. Therefore, this a Case Study of Aromatherapy to Relieve the Sleep Quality and Emotional Stress-Using the Married Women in Middle Age as an Example as a main axis. Hope to understand and improve the long-term accumulated pressure of middle-aged married women, improve their sleep quality and reduce emotional stress. This study combines in-depth interviews with experiments. 7 married middle-aged women with sleep quality and emotional stress. A weekly relieve stress course, using the aromatherapy method of Sniffing and massage. Everyday wear essential oil bottle necklace, the course lasts for ten weeks. Using heart rate variability meter was measured before and after each course, and the objective physiological values were used to check whether it can relieve stress. In-depth interviews have found relieve stress course can helps the improvement of sleep quality and emotional stress among middle-aged married women. Among the heart rate variability, the participants' LF, LF/HF were all effectively relieved, and HF, SDNN and HR were all improved. This study used both the Pittsburgh sleep quality index and the Brief Symptom Rating Scale to assist in measurement. The results showed that the total score of the scale reached a significant decline, and most of the participants were converted from moderate and severe emotional stress to those with good physical and mental adaptation. In this study, the relieve stress course significantly improved the sleep quality and emotional stress of middle-aged married women in both subjective and objective measures. The study also found that the length of the essential oil bottle necklace is closely related to the occupation. At work, with lower head to work with a long of time, optimum wear essential oil bottle necklace length are tip of the nose down to the collarbone about 13 cm. And with raise head to work with a long of time, optimum wear essential oil bottle necklace length are tip of the nose down to the collarbone about 8 cm. Furthermore with raise head to work with a long of time, optimum wear essential oil bottle necklace length are tip of the nose down to the collarbone about 8 cm. All of the above findings are beneficial for participants to sniff essential oil molecules. In addition, allowing participants to choose their favorite essential oil bottle necklaces before the course will enable participants to greatly enhance their essential oils and increase the frequency of use, thereby enhancing the reliability of this study. It is hoped that through this research, the future can be extended beyond the middle-aged married women as another way to relieve stress and maintain care.