Abstract: Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of self-aromatherapy massage on menstrual pain and anxiety.Participants and methods: The subjects were 63 female nurses who rated their menstrual pain >5 on a 10-point visual analogue scale. Subjects were non-randomly allocated into three groups: an experimental group (N=26) who performed self-aromatherapy massage, a placebo group (N=18), and a no-treatment control group (N=19). Eleven participants dropped out of the study either because of nausea (experimental group, N=1) or because they took medication during the trial (placebo group, N=3; control group, N=4). The final analysis included 25 in the experimental group, 15 in the placebo group, and 15 in the no-treatment control group. Menstrual pain and anxiety levels w...

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