碩士 / 中國文化大學 / 生活應用科學系碩士在職專班 / 104 / This study was aimed to know about the relationship among experiencing aromatherapy, stress and quality of life on the female custmers of Just Herb Co., living in Taipei city in order to know more about if experiencing aromatherapy can affect stress release and the satisfaction of quality of life. A questionnaire survey of convenience sampling applied for this study The research instrument included responsors’ demographic information, women’s properties of using aromatherapy survey scale, women’s stress level survey scale and WHOQOL-BREF survey scale. A total of 450 questionnaires were handed out and responded, but only 429 valid questionnaires were collected, effective response rate is 95.3%. The datas were conducted and analyzed by SPSS version 22. The analysis results found that: (1) 60 percent of women using aromatherapy because they want to relieve their stress; (2) The most of women like citrus and floral aromas ; (3) Lavender make them feel relax ; (4) After they used aromatherapy, they feel relaxed and sleep well；(5)93 percent of them fell using aromatherapy make them relieve their stress and gain happiness；(6)The frequency and purpose of using aromatherapy will affect their feelings and results；(7) The relationship of stress with quality of life is negative. The results will provide some useful reference to the posterity, either businessman or customers.

INTRODUCAO: Os sintomas de climaterio podem perturbar intensamente a vida, sendo o fogacho o sintoma de maior incidencia. Aromaterapia e yogaterapia podem oferecer tratamentos eficazes para sintomas de climaterio, em especial o fogacho, por apresentarem mecanismos terapeuticos semelhantes ao eixo fisiologico do fogacho. OBJETIVO PRINCIPAL: Verificar e analisar os desfechos clinicos fisiologicos e psicologicos da aromaterapia olfativa e de exercicios respiratorios de yogaterapia, associados e individualmente, na qualidade de vida, nos niveis de stress subjetivo e na intensidade e frequencia do fogacho de mulheres na fase do climaterio. METODO: Foram avaliadas 85 mulheres na fase do climaterio, das quais 64 participaram da Fase 1 (somente avaliacao) do estudo e 34 participaram da Fase 2 (tratamento). A coleta foi realizada no CEPE-USP. O estudo consiste de um ensaio clinico pragmatico com randomizacao restrita, controlado por grupo controle e placebo, duplo-cego, com intervencao baseada no modelo psiconeuroendocrinoimunologico. Foram realizados tratamentos com inalacao de sinergia aromaterapeutica com ou sem exercicios respiratorios de yogaterapia, durante 12 semanas, duas vezes por semana em sessoes de uma hora. O estudo foi aprovado pelo Comite de Etica em Pesquisa da Escola de Educacao Fisica e Esporte da Universidade de Sao Paulo e foi inscrito no clinicaltrials.gov. RESULTADOS E DISCUSSAO: Os resultados da pesquisa mostraram melhora estatisticamente significante dos sintomas de climaterio para os tres grupos de intervencao. Houve diminuicao significativa do sintoma de fogacho, assim como da queixa de fogacho, sendo que o fogacho foi eliminado em cinco sujeitos. A intensidade e a frequencia de fogacho diminuiram em todos os grupos de intervencao e se mantiveram constantes no grupo controle. O tratamento proposto de aromaterapia se mostrou mais eficaz do que o tratamento proposto de yogaterapia na diminuicao do sintoma de fogacho, quando esses tratamentos eram aplicados isoladamente. A associacao das duas terapias se mostrou benefica, aumentando a eficacia e intensificando a melhora do sintoma de fogacho. Os efeitos globais dos tratamentos variaram intensamente quanto aos outros dominios de sintomas do climaterio. A melhora dos sintomas vasomotores do climaterio (fogacho e suor noturno), foi acompanhada de melhora significativa nos niveis de stress subjetivo, na qualidade do sono e da qualidade de vida em todos os grupos de intervencao. Esse trabalho tambem permitiu discussoes secundarias sobre o climaterio e as terapias, permitindo a sua compreensao a partir do modelo psiconeuroendocrinoimunologico. CONCLUSAO: Esse estudo serviu como um delineamento geral dos sintomas de climaterio, da aromaterapia e da yogaterapia a partir do modelo psiconeuroendocrinoimunologico. Os resultados apresentados nao podem ser generalizados para a populacao por causa da amostra pequena, mas podem indicar os resultados mais promissores e, com isso, esse trabalho pode ser o ponto de partida para novos estudos, auxiliando na elaboracao de questoes de pesquisa claras e metodos de pesquisa adequados para estuda-las / INTRODUCTION: Climacteric symptoms can disturb life considerably. Hot flashes are the symptom with highest incidence. Aromatherapy and yogatherapy can offer efficient treatments for climacteric symptoms, specially hot flashes, because their therapeutic mechanisms are similar to the physiological mechanism of hot flashes. MAIN OBJECTIVE: To analyze the psychological and physiological clinical outcomes of olfactory aromatherapy and breathing exercises of yogatherapy, associated or individually, on the quality of life, subjective stress levels and intensity and frequency of hot flashes in women in the climacteric period. METHODS: 85 women in the climacteric period were evaluated, 64 of these subjects participated in Phase 1 (assessment) and 34 participated in Phase 2 (treatment) . Data collection was performed at CEPE-USP. The study consists of a doubleblind, pragmatic clinical trial with restricted randomization, controlled by control and placebo groups. The intervention was based on the psychoneuroendocrineimmunological model. Treatments were performed with inhalation of an aromatherapeutic synergy developed for the study with or without yogatherapy breathing exercises for 12 weeks, twice per week in one hour sessions. The study was approved by the ethics comitte Comite de Etica em Pesquisa da Escola de Educacao Fisica e Esporte da Universidade de Sao Paulo and was registered in clinicaltrials.gov. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: The results showed statistically significant improvement in symptoms of menopause for the three intervention groups. There was significant decrease in symptom of hot flashes, as well as complaints of hot flashes and this symptom was eliminated in five subjects. The intensity and frequency of hot flashes decreased in all intervention groups and remained constant in the control group. Aromatherapy was more effective than yogatherapy to decrease the symptoms of hot flashes, when these treatments were applied separately. The combination of the two therapies proved beneficial, increasing the effectiveness and enhancing the improvement of the symptom of hot flashes. The overall effects of the treatments varied intensely for other climacteric symptoms. The improvement of vasomotor symptoms of menopause (hot flashes and night sweats), was accompanied by a significant improvement in stress levels, quality of sleep and quality of life in all intervention groups. This research also permitted secondary discussions about climacterium and the therapies, permiting their understanding through the psychoneuroendocrineimmunological model. CONCLUSION: This study served as a general outline of climacteric symptoms, aromatherapy and yogatherapy through the psychoneuroendocrineimmunological model. The results cannot be generalized to the population because of the small sample size. However, the most promissing results can be indicated and this research can be the starting point for further studies, assisting in the preparation of clear research questions and suitable research methods to study them

碩士 / 國立臺北護理健康大學 / 語言治療與聽力研究所 / 105 / This study aims to examine the effects of aromatherapy on prebyphagia among aged rats as preliminary research subjects. All rats (N= 4) were male, 18 months old, and of Wistar species. The experimental group (n= 3) received aromatherapy for twice a day and an hour each time over 20 days. The rats received intramuscular Electromyography (EMG) and their food intake, water consumption and body weight were measured daily. Their brain stems were placed under histological analysis. The aromatherapy has used a mixture of four types of essential oils that is vaporised via an essential oil electronic diffuser. The result showed that the experimental group has a total number of c-fos in the nucleus of solitary tract (NTS), especially in the rostral part, greater than the control group. The intramuscular EMG reveals that, compared to pre-intervention, the experimental group post intervention demonstrated significantly larger maximum amplitude, average amplitude, and duration of maximum continuous contraction; the difference between pre- and post-intervention for average frequency of signaling was not significant. The control group reveals a different pattern whereby contraction was shorter post-intervention and all the other measures did not present significant differences. Food intake and body weight of the experimental group reduced while water intake did not change consistently and physical activity did not change significantly. Evidently, aromatherapy has an effect on the presbyphagia. However, the small sample size in this study warrants further investigation involving larger sample size.

碩士 / 國立高雄應用科技大學 / 企業管理系碩士在職專班 / 103 / Department of Business Administration Nation Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences The aromatherapy industry is a highly personalized service industry, but there is little research from the consumer’s view. Therefore, this research takes the consumers of one aromatherapy’ company as example to examine the relationship among service contact, service experience, service quality, and repurchase intention. From 400 valid questionnaires, the results show that service contact has significantly positive influence repurchase intention. Servce experience has significantly positive affect repurchase intention. Service contact has significantly positive effect service quality. Service experience has significantly positive influence service quality. Service quality has significantly positive affect repurchase intention. Furthermore, this research found that the mediation effect of service quality, , both service contact and service experience will indirect influence on repurchase intention through the service quality. The findings of this research can provid the aromatherapy industry as reference.

碩士 / 經國管理暨健康學院 / 健康產業管理研究所 / 103 / Health Promoting School is an educational policy which has been actively set into action recently in Taiwan. Every junior high school and every elementary school are doing their utmost to develop school health promoting to promote both body and mind of teachers and students. The goal of our Health Promoting School mostly focuses on the health promoting of students, like eyesight care, oral cavity sanitation, the effectiveness of health, smoking prevention, betel nut prevention, sexual education (including AIDS prevention) and others such as the right ways to take the medicine. As to the concern of teachers' health is seldom mentioned. Students' efficient learning at school is not just their own learning attitude, ways of learning, and learning interests, but connects more to teachers' teaching accomplishment, teaching proficiency, and teaching enthusiasm. Actually, teachers' body and mind are more concerned with the efficiency of teaching, and special education teachers are the ones who have the most workload. Except for teaching special education students to adjust to their lives and to cultivate their ability to take care of themselves, teachers also need to teach them practical ability in language and math so that these students can possess the ability to live individually. However, students don't cooperate to teachers all the time and don't improve well. This low-achievement work not only decreases special education teachers' enthusiasm at work but also influences their body and mind. Among many documents, the way for most special education teachers to relieve pressure is to seek support from colleagues and administrative units, vent their feelings, adjust themselves to a new situation, build personal confidence, create a pleasant working environment, communicate with people actively, grasp the crux of a problem, fulfill lifelong learning and promote the related psychology and solutions of self-learning nature ability. This study tries to use aromatherapy to discuss the effectiveness on special education teachers after they smell the essential oil.The experimental subjects are 33 special education teachers in Banqiao District, New Taipei City. The essential oil was not used on the first week. Before the experiment and class (about 8 am) and after class (about 4 pm) every physiological index-NASA-TLX, blood pressure, Heart Rate (HR) Heart Rate Variability index (HRV), Low Frequency Power (ln LF), High Frequency Power (ln HF), Normalized-n LF, Ratio of Low Frequency to High Frequency (LF/HF). The second week was during the class, the experimental subjects smell the essential oil of rose, lavender, and bergamot blending flavor four to five times, and then measure the physiological index and Heart Rate Variability index. The result of the study shows that smelling the essential oil inside the necklace bottle eight to ten times after five workdays, the teachers' NASA-TLX, systolic pressure, diastolic pressure, Heart Rate,ln LF,ln LF%, and ln LF/ln HF all evidently decreased, and ln HF are evidently increased. To sum up the experimental results above, the study found that smelling the essential oil of rose, lavender, and bergamot blending flavor inside the necklace bottle is beneficial to release mental stress and relax body and mind.

碩士 / 樹德科技大學 / 應用設計研究所 / 104 / The purpose of this study is to design an innovative multi-area conductive gloves which can integrate aromatherapy and electrotherapy in a course of treatment, and to improve the back stress relief in a rapid, convenient and laborsaving way. The participants in this study were 24 females : 8 in electrotherapy group (A) , 8 in aromatherapy group (B) , and the last 8 in conductive gloves group (C). These three groups were treated each therapy in thirty minutes once a week in three weeks. The multi-area conductive gloves have separate different conductive regions (use thumb to conduct the electricity by pressing to excite the Fengchi acupoint and Tianliao acupoint by pressing in the first region and use the inframarginal part of the palm in the glove to conduct the electricity by stroking to excite the Tianzhong acupoint in the second region, and use the back of the index finger and the middle finger in the glove to conduct electricity by fist-pushing to excite the Gaomang acupoint) to fuse the electrotherapy and aromatherapy faultless in the same course of treatment. The group C’s effect is the best by analyzing the before and the after in the course of treatment with the scale measuring by soreness and destressing. The group C’s average value of the theory of good conductors in the whole course of treatment by Tianzhong acupoint (small intestines) and Gaomang acupoint (bladder) is the best, but the Fengchi acupoint (gall bladder) is the worst. The main reason should be reviewed why is leading to the excitation of the parasympathetic nerves under the situation of rest and quiet in a long term. The second reason caused the decrease of good conductors is that there is chignon in the hind neck where the Fengchi acupoint, the gall bladder is. The gloves of group C’s electric current is obstructed by the chignon and the part of back should be designed some other techniques, so the group C is the worst in this part. The answer why group B not be blocked is that power by the force of finger, and the action of touching and pressing in massage can excite the secretion of hormone to decrease the pressure, clear up the fear and relieve the pain. The group A is easier to let the electric current pass through because of the electric conduction paste. There are four questions analyzed by Likert item: the best effect by Gaomang acupoint, leisure with body and mind, and whole degree of satisfaction is in the group C. Thus it can be improved that multi-area conductive gloves is a rapid, exact, convenient and laborsaving way to raise the effect with relieving the back, degree of satisfaction and the level of health care. It also be worth to do further research by using the technique.

碩士 / 環球科技大學 / 中小企業經營策略管理研究所 / 103 / In the beginning of participation in the certification program of aromatherapy, the author was skeptical whether oriental culture can accept that men engage in aromatherapy business. However, after participating in the independent training program “Dancing Life” held by International Association of Aromatherapy (IAA), the author’s concepts changed a lot. The ingenious integration of aromatherapy with Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) created an amazing effect, as well as triggered the author’s interest in conducting this study. The research purposes are as follows: 1. To better understand how aromatherapy and NLP program content assists in entrepreneurship. 2. The advantages and disadvantages of promotion of integration of aromatherapy with NLP program According to the literature review, there is no study investigating the integration of aromatherapy with NLP in Taiwan. Therefore, this exploratory study used case study as the research method, and the author actually participated in the ICIM aromatherapy and NLP certification program held by IAA to better understand the status of promotion and program implementation of IAA. Afterwards, this study used SWOT to analyze the current development status and future promotion direction of IAA. Due to industrial relocation and policy orientation in Taiwan, an increasing importance has been attached to service industry, tourism industry, and leisure culture. There is a promising future for tourism and service industries in Taiwan. SPA industry plays an important role in leisure industry. The training of professional skills of SPA personnel is the key to the maintenance of high quality SPA industry. There has not been relevant certification program, regulations, and counseling in Taiwan. Therefore, the training of aromatherapy teachers of various associations is particularly important. IAA has spared no effort in the training of professional aroma-therapists, and has trained tens of thousands of professional aroma-health therapists. At present, IAA has partially focused on the development in Mainland China. Besides, IAA also offers NLP certification program. The members can learn to motivate themselves, increase the success rate of employment and entrepreneurship, and acquire professional skills of client service.

碩士 / 嘉南藥理大學 / 化粧品應用與管理系 / 103 / Abstract According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan, the population of aging people is continuously increased and it is estimated that Taiwn will become "aging society" in the year of 2018. The population of Dementia is increased significantly as the population of elderly increased. The impact of dementia to the society is that dementia is one of the most serious chronic diseases that lead to the degradation of central nervous system, cognitive and memory function loss or abnormal behavior. These consequences are the main source of psychological or economical pressure to their family. Dementia patients also need more care than other patients. Aromatherapy has a long history in soothing anxiety and restlessness and improving the quality of sleep. Therefore, it is intended to evaluate the effects of aromatherapy to behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia (BPSD) in this study. The test subjects are screened using the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR) by physicians and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and Geriatric Depression Scale-30 items (GDS). Through randomized and diverse trials to evaluate the effect of aromatherapy in the behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia patients. The results show that aroma sniffing combined with body massage can effectively and continuously improve the emotional and behavioral status, including the increasing of facial expressions, communication skills, emotional control and the reducing of anxiety, emotional conflict, of the elder with dementia and thus suggest can improve the life quality of the elder with dementia and their carers.

碩士 / 南華大學 / 企業管理學系管理科學碩博士班 / 105 / In the on-job training market for aromatherapy health instructor, the performance of the lecturer affects the student's choice. Such as their professional competence may affect whether the participant will attend the on-the-job training course in the future. Hence, we need to understand the professional ability and teaching style of the lecturer in order to handle the key issues of vocational training courses. The aim of this study was to study the relationship between instructor’s teaching style, professional ability and effect of transfer training in the aromatherapy market and the role of aromatherapy health instructor in learning cultivation. The study focuses on aromatherapy health instructors and students in Taiwan by using convenience sampling. A total of 204 questionnaires were collected, with the questionnaire return rate of 100%. The questionnaires were then analyzed using Independent-Sample T test, one-way analysis of variance, regression analysis etc. 　　Research shows that, in terms of variance analysis, the differences in training costs, training place and burden of family costs lead to difference in transfer training. Furthermore, the difference in learning frequency affects the view on learning style. Aromatherapy health instructor of different gender, age, marital status, education, job rank and average income are consistent with the views on each variable, there was no significant difference. In terms of regression analysis, the instructor's teaching style and professional ability have a significant positive effect on learning motivation. Likewise, the effectiveness of the training of instructors also has a significant positive impact on learning motivation.

碩士 / 南華大學 / 企業管理學系管理科學碩博士班 / 105 / The purpose of this study is to explore the relationships among learning motive, learning strategy and learning achievement. In this study, data of student of Aromatherapy Health Courses were collected by way of non-random sampling method with questionnaires.300 questionnaires were distributed, and 268 questionnaires were received, in which 31 questionnaires were invalid such that 237 questionnaires were valid, and the effective response rate was79%. 　　The resulting conclusions of this study are listed as follows: 1. Learning motive has a significant positive impact on learning strategy and learning achievement respectively. 2. Learning strategy has a significant positive impact on learning achievement. 3. Learning strategy preserves partial mediation effect between learning motive and learning achievement.