應用芳香療法中複方精油對睡眠品質之療效探討

背景在忙碌緊湊與快速變遷的社會環境下，民眾睡眠品質下降，不僅是現代人普遍困擾，亦是影響健康之重要因子。芳香療法為一種簡單方便的輔助療法，運用身心平衡的觀念，療癒身心，改善睡眠品質，協助一般大眾能有更好的生活品質。過去研究比較多做單一的精油探討，而比較少探討使用複方精油芳香療法針對改善睡眠品質的研究。目的旨在探討使用複方精油芳香療法對受試者睡眠品質之成效。方法受試者來自台灣中部某芳香療法SPA館的69位客戶，為20歲以上、意識清楚者，並徵得同意後，以匹茲堡睡眠品質量表(Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI) ≥ 5分者為納入收案條件。採用類實驗性設計，受試者隨機分派至實驗組、對照組。實驗組(35人)接受複方精油芳香療法按摩及睡前塗抹薰香嗅吸，對照組(34人)則接受常規精油按摩。兩組以28天為期、每週一次。本研究以 SPSS 17.0中文版套裝軟體進行資料整理與統計分析，採用描述性統計、卡方檢定及無母數統計進行檢定。結果複方精油配方之按摩與嗅吸介入後，實驗組在個人自評睡眠品質、睡眠潛伏期、睡眠效率、睡眠總分顯著優於對照組，而睡眠時間、睡眠困擾、白天功能無差異。實驗組在複方精油配方之按摩與嗅吸介入前、後，其個人自評睡眠品質等六個構面均有顯著差異，代表複方精油配方之按摩與嗅吸介入後有良好成效。結論芳香療法複方精油按摩與睡前塗抹嗅吸後的介入措施具有正面效果，對睡眠品質有顯著的改善，並依據此結果，提出改善睡眠品質及未來研究之參考建議。

關鍵字

SPA館；睡眠品質；匹茲堡睡眠品質量表；芳香療法

並列摘要

Background In this busy, fast-speed, and quick moving social environment, the decline of sleep quality is not only a normal trouble for people, but also an important factor to influence their health. Aromatherapy is a simple and convenient adjuvant therapy using the concept of physical and mental balance to cure body and mind, improve the quality of sleep, help people to get better quality of life and prevent diseases. The literature shows that people focused more on one single essential oil discussion, but fewer researches paid attention to compound essential oil aromatherapy for improving sleep quality. Purpose The purpose of this study is to find out if compound essential oil aromatherapy is effective on improving sleep quality. Method Subjects are sixty-nine participants from one aroma SPA hall in central Taiwan. They are all over 20 years-old with clear conscious and get Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) more than or equal to 5 points with their agreements. Using quasi-experimental design, the participants were randomly assigned to the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group (35 participants) are served by the way of smear, sniff or breath the sweet dream compound essential oil before going to bed every day; the control group (34 participants) are served by the way of routine essential oil massage. Both groups are served for a period of continuous 28 days, and once a week of essential oil massage. This study uses Chinese version of SPSS for Windows 17.0 for data collation and statistical analysis. This statistics method adapts descriptive statistics, chi-square test and nonparametric statistics to analyze data. Results The results show that the effect of the experimental group on the quality of sleep is significantly better than that of the control group after the intervention of the aromatherapy group. For the experimental group, the average number of posttest is lower than pretest, including subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, daytime dysfunction, and total sleep scores. The study indicates that intervention in aromatherapy courses has a significant impact on the improvement in sleep quality of the participants. Conclusions This study indicates that the intervention of compound essential oil message and smearing or sniffing it before sleep is positively effective. Based on these results, it can be a reference for better quality of sleep, practical operation and applied method of aromatherapy SPA hall, and future research.