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This study was carried out to evaluate the effects of aroma hand massage using lavender oil on the improvement of sleep quality in hospitalized elderly inpatients. The patients (>65 years old) hospitalized in K care hospital were divided into two groups: the lavender group (17 people receiving aroma hand massage using lavender oil) and the jojoba group (15 people receiving hand massage using jojoba oil). Actigraphy and sleep satisfaction were used as research tools. Paired t-tests, χ2 test, and t-tests were used to analyze the data using the SPSS WIN 17.0 program. The lavender group showed a statistically significant improvement after the treatment not only in subjective measures including sleep satisfaction but also in objective measures, including actigraphic parameters such as total sleep time, wake time after sleep onset, and sleep efficiency. Based on the results, we demonstrated that aroma hand massage using lavender oil is effective in improving the sleep quality in elderly inpatients. Furthermore, our results indicated that this effect was not merely a placebo or hand massage effect, but the result of the lavender oil.
