The effect of the aromatherapy massage on the patients sleep quality with cancer
Wasijati Herman
STIKes Pertamedika Jakarta
Abstract
The inability to have a sleep quality can increase the risk of having cancer to be more aggressive. This condition occurs because the immune body system is disturbed so that the ability of the immune to restrain or to control the cancer cells is decreasing. This research is aimed at knowing the effect of the aromatherapy massage on the patients sleep quality with cancer. This research is a quantitative research with quasi experimental design by using pre- and post-test method without control group. The sample of this research is 15 respondents and the sample taking is by using consecutive sampling technique. The sleep quality is measured by using PSQI questionnaires (The Pittsburgh sleep quality index). The research result shows that there is a decreasing score of sleep quality after the aromatherapy massage with the probability value of 0,0001 (p value < 0,05). The decreasing score of sleep quality shows that there is an increase in the sleep quality, so it can be concluded that there was an effect of aromatherapy massage on sleep quality of patients with cancer. Based on the research results it is expected that aromatherapy massage is recommended as a self intervention of nurses in healthcare services to improve the sleep quality of the patients with cancer.
Keywords: cancer, sleep quality, aromatherapy massage
Topic: International Conference on Nursing