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Original Article 에센셜오일 흡입이 스트레스와 교감신경 활성도에 미치는 효과
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The Effects of Essential Oil Inhalation on the Stress and Sympathetic Nerve Activity
Ik Lyul Bae1, Myung Haeng Hur2
STRESS 2016;24(2):75-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2016.24.2.75
Published online: June 30, 2016

1대전과학기술대학교 간호학과, 2을지대학교 간호대학



1Department of Nursing, Daejeon Institute of Science and Technology, 2College of Nursing, Eulji University, Daejeon, Korea

Received: 6 March 2015   • Revised: 15 April 2015   • Accepted: 4 April 2016
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This study utilized a nonequivalent control group pretest posttest design in order to compare the effects of essential oil (EO) on Stress and sympathetic nerve activity after an exposure to stressors. The adults without any diagnosed disease are volunteered and enrolled through a recruitment advertisement to December of 2013 as the subjects of this study. The data were collected by convenient sampling of experimental group of 17 and control group of 15 were finally selected to meet the requirements to be this research subjects. The collection of the data for this research was approved by Institutional Review Board (IRB) beforehand. Stressor was university final exams. Stress Index was significantly lower in the EO inhalation group than control group. However, it did not show significant differences in sympathetic nerve activity. The inhalation of aromatherapy essential oil was effective on reducing of the stress. (Korean J Stress Res 2016;24:75∼83)

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