Comparing the Effect of Aromatherapy with Peppermint and Lavender Essential Oils on Fatigue of Cardiac Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 2

Comparison of the fatigue levels before and after the intervention in aromatherapy and control groups.

	Study groups									value ^$
	Peppermint			Lavender			Control
Intervention	Mean ± SD^•	Med (IQR^#)	95% ci^‡	Mean ± SD	Med (IQR)	95%ci	Mean ± SD	Med (IQR)	95% ci
Before	49.7 ± 3.8	51 (3)	48.4, 51.0	46.3 ± 4.3	47| [5]	44.8, 47.8	47.5 ± 4.5	49 (6)	45.8, 49.1	0.896
After	25.4 ± 5.3	24 (3)	23.6, 27.2	25.2 ± 8.9	23 (5)	22.1, 28.3	45.6 ± 9.9	49 (9)	42.2, 49.1	<0.001
value	<0.001^†			<0.001^†			0.046^†

^•Standard deviation; ^‡confidence interval; ^$based on Kruskal–Wallis H test; ^#interquartile range; ^†Wilcoxon signed-rank test.