Perceived effects of aromatherapy to the test taking anxiety of first year nursing students of De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute for academic year 2018-2019

The study utilized a descriptive, non-experimental design. Purposive sampling was used to select 141 first year nursing students of De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute Academic Year 2018 to 2019 who have knowledge or have undergone aromatherapy. Data was obtained using a questionnaire and analyzed through frequency distribution, percentage distribution, mean, t-test, standard deviation and t-test. The following conclusions were drawn: 1) Majority of the respondents were female, belonged to the socioeconomic group P100,000 to P249,999 and Catholic; 2) A mean of 3.06 indicated that the respondents had high perception regarding the effects of aromatherapy to the test taking anxiety of the respondents; 3) There was no significant difference on the perception of the respondents on aromatherapy to the test taking anxiety when they were grouped according to sex, religion, and socioeconomic status