EN | RU
EN | RU

Help Support

Back

Impact of Lavender Essential Oil capsules on combined oral contraceptives-related mood disorders

oral contraceptive oral contraceptive
oral contraceptive oral contraceptive

To examine the efficacy of lavender essential oil capsules on mood disorders, such as stress, depression, and anxiety during combined oral contraceptives (COCs) use for pregnancy prevention and other disorders.

See All

Key take away

Combining lavender capsules with oral hormonal contraceptives improves mood disorders in women.

Background

To examine the efficacy of lavender essential oil capsules on mood disorders, such as stress, depression, and anxiety during combined oral contraceptives (COCs) use for pregnancy prevention and other disorders.

Method

Sixty married women (aged 15 to 49 years) who were consumers of COCs were randomly assigned to receive either intervention (consuming one lavender 80 mg gelatin capsule every day for 56 days) therapy or control therapy (one placebo capsule every day).

The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) questionnaire was used to evaluate the positive and negative scores, while stress, depression, and anxiety levels were gauged using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS21) questionnaire on the 28th and 56th days after the intervention. Data analysis involved t-tests and ANOVA with repeated measures, with p < 0.05 as significance.

Result

The women receiving Lavender capsules or placebo had a statistically significant difference in different mood disorders. The effect of lavender capsules on mood and mental health is shown in the following table 1:

No statistically noteworthy difference between the two groups was observed in terms of anxiety.

Conclusion

Lavender essential oil capsules proved to be beneficial for improving mood disorders and reducing depression and stress in women taking contraceptives.

Source:

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

Article:

The effect of lavender on mood disorders associated with the use of combined oral contraceptives (COCs): a triple-blinded randomized controlled trial

Authors:

Mina Naghdi et al.

Comments (0)

You want to delete this comment? Please mention comment Invalid Text Content Text Content cannot me more than 1000 Something Went Wrong Cancel Confirm Confirm Delete Hide Replies View Replies View Replies en ru ua
Try: