A study to evaluate the effectiveness of aroma therapy on quality of sleep among blind children in selected blind school, Salem.
The design adopted was true experimental design. Setting of the study was Government School for blind (experimental group), national association school for blind (control group). The sample size was 60 and was drawn through simple random sampling technique (Lottery method). The data gathered were analyzed by descriptive and inferential
statistical method and interpretations were made on the basis of the objectives of the study.
In experimental group among 30 children in pre test, 5(16.6%) of them had good quality of sleep, 11(36.6%) of them had fair quality of sleep and 14(46.6%) of them had poor quality of sleep. In post test 12 (40%) of them had good quality of sleep, 15 (50%) of them had fair quality of sleep and 3 (10%) of them poor quality of sleep. In control group among 30 children in pre test 7 (23.3%) of them had good quality of sleep, 12 (40%) had fair quality of
sleep and 11 (36.6%) of them had poor quality of sleep. In post test 5 (16.6%) of them had good quality of sleep, 13 (43.3%) had fair quality of sleep and 12 (40%) of them had poor quality of sleep. In experimental group mean score was 31.13 ± 12.82, where as in control group, mean was 46.6 ± 15.75. The calculated ‘t’ value (4.368 at p = 0.05 level) shows that aroma therapy was effective to improve the quality of sleep. Hence the hypothesis H1 is retained. There was no significant association between the quality of sleep among blind children and their demographic variables in experimental and control group. Hence the hypothesis H2 is rejected
