Phytoncide Aroma Inhalation and Exercise Combination Therapy Mood state, college life stress and sleep of College Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of phytoncide Aroma inhalation and exercise combination therapy on the college life stress, mood state and sleep pattern of the university students. Participants were 72 college students of four groups of Phytoncide Aroma Inhalation group(n=18), Exercise group(n=17), Phytoncide Aroma Inhalation and exercise combination therapy group(n=17), control group(n=20). Research subjects pre-test(0week), mid-test(6week), post-test(12week) measurement was made equally on college life stress, mood state and sleep pattern. As a result, mood status, college life satisfaction and sleep scores were improved in all groups except the control group. Especially, phytoncide inhalation and exercise combination therapy group showed the greatest change in scores.

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“…As a study related to phytoncide, inhalation of air with phytoncide had a psychological and physiological stability effect [9,10]. In addition, cardiovascular and stress indicators were improved in the group that inhaled phytoncide and exercised at the same time compared to the exercise-only group [11,12]. In the case of mouse experiments using phytoncide, the higher the concentration of phytoncide injected into cells within the appropriate range, the higher the physiological recovery effect such as wound recovery [13,14].…”