TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of an intervention with drinking chamomile tea on sleep quality and depression in sleep disturbed postnatal women
T2 - A randomized controlled trial
AU - Chang, Shao Min
AU - Chen, Chung Hey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of chamomile tea on sleep quality, fatigue and depression in postpartum women. Background: Sleep quality is a significant issue for postnatal women. Chamomile is widely used as a folk remedy for its presumed sedative-hypnotic effects. Design: A pretest-post-test randomized controlled trial was used. Methods: A total of 80 Taiwanese postnatal women with poor sleep quality (Postpartum Sleep Quality Scale PSQS score ≧16) were recruited from November 2012-August 2013. They were systematically assigned, with a random start, to either the experimental group (n = 40) or the control group (n = 40). The participants in the experimental group were instructed to drink chamomile tea for a period of 2 weeks. The participants in the control group received regular postpartum care only. The PSQS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, and Postpartum Fatigue Scale were used to assess outcomes. Two-sample t-tests were used to examine the mean differences in outcome variables between the two groups. Results: Compared with the control group, the experimental group demonstrated significantly lower scores of physical-symptoms-related sleep inefficiency (t = -2·482, P = 0·015) and the symptoms of depression (t = -2·372, P = 0·020). However, the scores for all three instruments were similar for both groups at 4-week post-test, suggesting that the positive effects of chamomile tea were limited to the immediate term. Conclusion: Chamomile tea may be recommended to postpartum women as a supplementary approach to alleviating depression and sleep quality problems.
AB - Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of chamomile tea on sleep quality, fatigue and depression in postpartum women. Background: Sleep quality is a significant issue for postnatal women. Chamomile is widely used as a folk remedy for its presumed sedative-hypnotic effects. Design: A pretest-post-test randomized controlled trial was used. Methods: A total of 80 Taiwanese postnatal women with poor sleep quality (Postpartum Sleep Quality Scale PSQS score ≧16) were recruited from November 2012-August 2013. They were systematically assigned, with a random start, to either the experimental group (n = 40) or the control group (n = 40). The participants in the experimental group were instructed to drink chamomile tea for a period of 2 weeks. The participants in the control group received regular postpartum care only. The PSQS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, and Postpartum Fatigue Scale were used to assess outcomes. Two-sample t-tests were used to examine the mean differences in outcome variables between the two groups. Results: Compared with the control group, the experimental group demonstrated significantly lower scores of physical-symptoms-related sleep inefficiency (t = -2·482, P = 0·015) and the symptoms of depression (t = -2·372, P = 0·020). However, the scores for all three instruments were similar for both groups at 4-week post-test, suggesting that the positive effects of chamomile tea were limited to the immediate term. Conclusion: Chamomile tea may be recommended to postpartum women as a supplementary approach to alleviating depression and sleep quality problems.
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U2 - 10.1111/jan.12836
DO - 10.1111/jan.12836
M3 - Article
C2 - 26483209
AN - SCOPUS:84954026245
SN - 0309-2402
VL - 72
SP - 306
EP - 315
JO - Journal of Advanced Nursing
JF - Journal of Advanced Nursing
IS - 2
ER -