Es-Haghee Somayeh, Shabani Fatemeh, Hawkins Jessie, Zareian Mohammad Ali, Nejatbakhsh Fatemeh, Qaraaty Marzieh, Tabarrai Malihe
Department of Traditional Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran.
Department of Midwifery, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2020 Dec 21;2020:6667078. doi: 10.1155/2020/6667078. eCollection 2020.
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a common disturbance among women of childbearing age. Aromatherapy is a commonly used form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to treat PMS. The purpose of this study is to quantify and summarize the effects of aromatherapy on premenstrual syndrome symptoms. . PubMed, Scopus, and Cochrane Library databases were searched through relevant search terms until October 2020. The effect sizes were pooled as weighted mean difference (WMD) and 95% confidence interval (CI) using the random effect model. Egger tests and visual inspection of the funnel plot were performed to identify the existence of publication bias. The -squared ( ) test was applied to measure heterogeneity. . Eight studies ( = 8) were included in this analysis. The quantitative synthesis of evidence found that aromatherapy decreases PMS scores (WMD -13.83; 95% CI (-22.04, -5.63), = 94.5%), total psychological symptoms of PMS (WMD -3.51; 95% CI (-4.84, -2.18), = 82.6%), anxiety of PMS (WMD-1.78; 95% CI (-3.17, -0.38), = 94.2%), depression of PMS (WMD-2.0; 95% CI (-3.65, -0.34), = 93.7%), and fatigue of PMS (WMD - 1.44; 95% CI (-2.44, -0.44), = 89.7%) compared to the control group. . Aromatherapy is an effective tool for the relief of PMS symptoms. Additional randomized controlled clinical trials with different durations and essential oils should be conducted to confirm our findings.
经前综合征（PMS）是育龄女性中常见的一种不适症状。芳香疗法是一种常用的补充和替代医学（CAM）形式，用于治疗经前综合征。本研究的目的是量化并总结芳香疗法对经前综合征症状的影响。通过相关检索词对PubMed、Scopus和Cochrane图书馆数据库进行检索，直至2020年10月。使用随机效应模型将效应量合并为加权平均差（WMD）和95%置信区间（CI）。进行Egger检验并通过漏斗图的直观检查来识别发表偏倚的存在。应用I²检验来衡量异质性。本分析纳入了八项研究（n = 8）。证据的定量综合分析发现，与对照组相比，芳香疗法可降低经前综合征评分（WMD -13.83；95% CI（-22.04，-5.63），I² = 94.5%）、经前综合征的总心理症状（WMD -3.51；95% CI（-4.84，-2.18），I² = 82.6%）、经前综合征的焦虑（WMD -1.78；95% CI（-3.17，-0.38），I² = 94.2%）、经前综合征的抑郁（WMD -2.0；95% CI（-3.65，-0.34），I² = 93.7%）以及经前综合征的疲劳（WMD -1.44；95% CI（-2.44，-0.44），I² = 89.7%）。芳香疗法是缓解经前综合征症状的有效工具。应开展更多不同持续时间和使用不同精油的随机对照临床试验来证实我们的研究结果。
