AROMATHERAPY AS A COMPLEMENT OF COVID-19 THERAPY

Aromatherapy helps COVID-19 patients to prevent, increase immunity, and relieve symptoms of COVID-19 so that it can be used as adjuvant COVID-19 therapy. This study aims to determine the level of public knowledge about aromatherapy that can be used as a complementary therapy for COVID-19 and refute the myth that aromatherapy functions as the primary therapy for COVID-19. This research design is descriptive-analytic, which is carried out in three stages, namely pre-test, presentation of material, and post-test. The pre-test was given together before the presentation of the material. The first material introduces aromatherapy, its benefits
and refutes the myth circulating in the community, namely aromatherapy as the primary therapy for COVID-19. The last stage is to give a post-test after delivering the material. The participants for this service are 52 people, carried out online through the zoom application. This activity demonstrated an increase in participants' knowledge about the use of aromatherapy as a complement to COVID-19 therapy.

Keywords: Aromatherapy, Covid-19, complementary therapy