Aromatherapy and Essential Oils in Improving Insomnia and Other Symptoms in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Acute Leukemia Undergoing Chemotherapy

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Acute Leukemia, Anorexia, Anxiety, Depression, Dyspnea, Insomnia, Nausea, Pain

In brief

This randomized clinical trial studies aromatherapy and essential oils in improving insomnia and other symptoms in patients with newly diagnosed acute leukemia. Aromatherapy and essential oils may help improve insomnia and other complications caused by chemotherapy.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02445378

Run by

Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

People needed

48

Starts

2014-12-28

Expected to finish

2016-11-05

Last updated by the study team

2019-04-05

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients who are newly diagnosed with acute leukemia and hospitalized to receive their initial 4 weeks of intensive induction chemotherapy for this disease

You may not qualify if…

• Asthma or other reactive airway disease
• Sleep apnea
• Planned less than two week hospitalization
• Change in pain medications/sleeping medications/anxiety medications/antiemetics during the trial
• Patients who have not completed their initial steroids
• Patients who are confused and unable to give informed consent

Where it is running

• Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Columbus, Ohio, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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