Abstract
The fulfillment of people are known from quantity and quality of their sleeping.
Sleeping quantity is the timing and sleeping amount person who is calculated by amount
of time (hours). Sleeping quality is satisfaction someone to sleep, so that someone does
not show a tired feeling, stimulating easily, anxious, lethargic and apathetic, blackish
around eyes, swollen eyelids, red conjunctiva, sore eyes, fragmented attention, headaches,
and sleepy. Sleeping quality problem is a situation where someone is not satisfied to
sleeping needed. One way to overcome sleeping quality problem uses aromatherapy
lavender flowers . Lavender contain linalyl acetate which is effective for releases work
system, relaxes the nerves, and sinews muscles that are tense. The puspose of this research
showed the influence of aromatherapy lavender flower beds to the quality of the elderly.
The design was Pre design Experiment one group pre and posttest design. The sample
was chosen by Purposive Sampling. The sample of this research was 16 people elderly.
Measuring instrument used a questionnaire PSQI (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index). The
result of Wilcoxon test statistic indicated P Value = 0.001 was less than α = 0.05 which
means there was influence of aromatherapy lavender flower on sleeping quality of elderly.