en Nursing Orginal research <span style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="color:#2980b9;"><b><i>Background:</i></b></span><span style="color:#000066;"> </span>Emergency medical services (EMS) workers are constantly exposed to intense physical and mental distress secondary to their obligatory at-once attendance to emergency medical situations. </span><br> <span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="color:#2980b9;"><b><i>Objectives:</i></b></span><span style="color:#000066;"><b><i> </i></b></span>This study aimed to compare the effect of foot reflexology with olive oil and peppermint inhalation on job stress and fatigue severity among the workers of EMS affiliated with the Zanjan University of Medical Sciences.</span><br> <span style="color:#2980b9;"><b><i>Methods:</i></b></span><span style="color:#000066;"> </span><span style="color:black">This was a clinical trial conducted on 69 employees of urban and road EMS units. The subjects were randomly divided into three groups. The first intervention group received foot reflexology with olive oil in the stress- and fatigue-reduction regions of the feet for three 20-minute sessions over 3 months. For the ^second intervention group, three drops of 10% peppermint essential oil were poured on a gauze, which was held 10 cm away from the nose. The control group received no intervention. The data were collected using the Esipo and Spokane job stress questionnaire and the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS). The data were analyzed by SPSS 21 software.</span><br> <span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="color:#2980b9;"><b><i>Results</i>:</b> </span>The results of the ANOVA test revealed no significant difference in the overall mean scores of fatigue severity and job stress between the study groups before the interventions; however, the mean scores of fatigue severity (P<0.002) and job stress (P<0.001) showed a statistically significant difference between the study groups after the intervention.</span><br> <span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="color:#2980b9;"><b><i>Conclusion:</i></b></span> Considering the effectiveness of both interventions, each of the interventions can be used to reduce the job stress and fatigue of emergency medical workers.</span></span></span></span> Reflexology Massage, Peppermint Inhalation, Job Stress, Fatigue Severity 41 49 http://nmcjournal.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-147-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mehdi Shabani 0009-0009-7595-1111 No Department of Emergency and Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran Parvin Shiri Gheidari shirig@zums.ac.ir 0000-0001-8698-6031 Yes Department of Emergency and Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran Masoumeh mortaghy Ghasemy 0000-0003-4706-3474 No Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Zanjan Nursing and Midwifery School, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran