Effect of Hydro-Aromatherapy on Heart Rate in Heart Failure Patients

Objects: to determine the effect of hydro-aromatherapy on heart rate in patients with heart failure.Methods: This study was a quasi-experiment pretest-posttest with two groups. Thirty-two respondents wereselected by consecutive sampling with inclusion and exclusion criteria. The intervention was given a warmfeet soak with aromatherapy, while the control only had a warm feet soak. Pulse oximetry was used tomeasure heart rate. Data were analyzed using a dependent t-test and independent t-test.Results: there was a statistically significant heart rate difference before and after in intervention (p<0.000),and also there was a statistically significant heart rate difference before and after in the control group(p<0.0005). In the study in the intervention group after the treatment, a warm feet soak with aromatherapywas decreased heart rate by an average of 78.69 (SD=14.63). Whereas in the control group after the treatmenta warm feet soak was also decreased heart rate by an average of 85.31 (SD=5.12).Conclusion: Both treatments a warm feet soak with and without aromatherapy were decreased the heartrate, but perhaps with aromatherapy will be improved patients’ comfort.