産褥早期の母親への背部アロマトリートメントによるリラックス感と疲労感の改善効果

Improvement Effects of Back Aroma Treatment on Relaxation and Fatigue of Early Puerperal Mothers

要旨

　目的：産褥早期の褥婦に対して背部へのアロマトリートメント介入をし，リラックス感および疲労感の変化を明らかにする．

　方法：分娩後1から7日目の褥婦30名に対して15分間のアロマトリートメント介入をした．比較群をおかない一群事前事後テストデザインの準実験研究であり，属性，リラックス感，疲労感，プロセス評価の回答を求めた．介入前後の比較はWilcoxon 符号付き順位検定を行い，質的データは内容分析を行った．

　結果：有効回答は30部（96.8％）であり，リラックス感は介入前より介入後が有意に高く（p = .000），疲労感は介入前より介入後の方が有意に低下した（p = .001）．

　結論：産褥早期の母親への背部のアロマトリートメントにより，介入後にリラックス感は有意に上昇し，疲労感は有意に低下した．産褥早期の母親のリラックス向上と疲労軽減に有用性があると示唆された．

　Purpose: The aim of this study was to clarify the improvement effects of back treatment with aromatic oil on the relaxation and fatigue of early puerperal mothers.

　Methods: A 15-minute back treatment was given to 30 mothers who were recuperating at the obstetrics clinic on days 1 to 7 after delivery. This was a quasi-experimental study using a pretest posttest design and involved comparisons of demographic data, degree of relaxation, fatigue level, and feedbacks such as satisfaction with the intervention. The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to evaluate changes in the relaxation and fatigue levels before and after the intervention. Content analysis was performed using qualitative data.

　Results: The number of valid responses was 30 (96.8%). The degree of relaxation was significantly higher after the intervention than before the intervention (p = .000). The fatigue level was significantly lower after the intervention than before the intervention (p = .001).

　Conclusion: The back treatment using aromatic oil significantly increased the degree of relaxation and significantly decreased the fatigue level of early puerperium mothers. Back aroma treatment may therefore be a simple but effective intervention for improving the relaxation and fatigue levels of mothers during the puerperal period.