Effectiveness of Aroma Therapy on Depression among Old Age in Selected Old Age Home at Chennai

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY, Old age is not so full of energy, but things are settling and depth is arising. If you miss your youth, you will miss your old age. . Home is the first school. Parents and grandparents are the first teachers. Grandparents are the one who teaches customs, culture, norms. New generation have less attachment with their elderly people as modern families are disintegrating into nuclear family. OBJECTIVES To determine the pre test and post test level of depression among old age in the experimental and control group. To determine the effectiveness of aroma therapy on depression among old age in experimental and control group. . To associate the post level of depression with the selected demographic variables of old age in the experimental group. HYPOTHESIS H1 The mean post test depression score of the old age will be significantly lesser than the mean pre test depression score of the old age who will have aroma. H2 There will be a significant association between the post test depression level of the old age and their selected demographic variables. METHODOLOGY Quasi experimental design was selected for this study. Purposive sampling technique was used for the study. FINAL RESULT AND CONCLUSION Depicts the pre test & post test scores of both experimental & control group. Among the experimental group majority of the samples (60 %) experienced mild level of depression and 12 out of 30 (40 %). But in the post test majority of the samples experienced mild level of depression (63 %), 11 out of 30 (37 %) experienced moderate level of depression. In control group in the pre test, majority of the samples experienced moderate level of depression (53 %) 14 out of 30 (47 %) in the post test, majority of the samples experienced moderate level of depression (57 %) experienced mild level of depression and 13 out of 30 ( 43 %). The effectiveness of aroma therapy on depression among 0ld age using paired t test shows 10.5 significant at the level of P less than0.05 Which implying that there was significant decrease in the level of depression in the post test.