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This research was conducted so as to investigate effects of aroma back massage on physical, psychological and emotional stress of middle-aged women and utilize it as a mediation therapy of health promotion which prevents and relieves middle-aged women's long-term diseases. The subject of this research was 30 middle-aged women in 40s~50s living in Masan, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam and they were randomly divided into aroma group, carrier group and non-treatment group of 10 women respectively. The period of research was 2 weeks from Mar. 04 to Apr. 13, 2013 total 6 times, three times per week. Aroma group was applied by back massage for 30 minutes by diluting orange, lavenda, ylangylang in jojoba oil 20 ml by 3%, carrier group was applied by back massage for 30 minutes by jojoba oil 20 ml. Non-treatment group took a rest on the bed for 30 minutes under the environment same as aroma group and carrier group. For the collection of three groups' data, accumulated stress was measured every time before and after the experiment through the physical and psychological stress questionnaires before and after the experiment and Ubio pulse wave measurer manufactured by Biosense Creative Co., Ltd. which is a venture company of KAIST. For the analysis of data, frequency analysis and ANCOVA were conducted by research problems with SPSS 15.0 program. As the results of research, physical stress has statistically significant differences between aroma group and carrier group (p<.05), aroma group and non-treatment group (p<.05). Psychological stress has statistically significant differences between aroma group and non-treatment group (p<.01), carrier group and non-treatment group (p<.05). Accumulated stress has statistically significant differences between aroma group and carrier group (p<.05), aroma group and non-treatment group (p<.01). Therefore, aroma back massage made effective effects on the relief of middle-aged women's physical, psychological and emotional stress.