Author(s)

Huimin Hu, Jinhua Liu^*

Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Changjiang University, Jingzhou, China.

Objective: To investigate the effect of lavender aromatherapy combined with acupressure on insomnia in breast cancer. Methods: 96 cases of insomnia patients with breast cancer were randomly divided into observation group and control group with 48 cases in each group. The control group received traditional methods to assist sleep, while the observation group underwent lavender aromatherapy combined with acupressure on this basis. Within 24 hours of patient enrollment and after 2 weeks of intervention, PSQI was utilized to assess sleep quality, SCL-90 was employed to evaluate psychological status, TCM syndrome scale was applied to assess symptom improvement. Besides, cancer-related fatigue score was also used to assess patient fatigue status. Results: After the intervention, the observation group was conspicuously better than the control group in PSQI score, SCL-90 score, TCM syndrome scale score. The differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Lavender aromatherapy combined with acupressure can significantly improve the sleep quality of breast cancer patients, and also show a certain effect in relieving adverse emotions and symptoms.

Aroma Therapy, Acupressure, Breast Cancer, Insomnia

Hu, H.M. and Liu, J.H. (2024) Application Study on Aroma Therapy Combined with Acupressure in Insomnia Patients with Breast Cancer. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 12, 342-350. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2024.1212027.