Suicide & life-threatening behavior

Insomnia symptoms, nightmares, and suicide risk: duration of sleep disturbance matters.

Suicide & life-threatening behavior December 28, 2012 Michael R Nadorff, Sarra Nazem, Amy Fiske

Duration of insomnia symptoms or nightmares was investigated to see if it was related to suicide risk independent of current insomnia symptoms, nightmares, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, and posttraumatic symptoms. The cross-sectional study involved analyses of survey responses from undergraduate students who endorsed either insomnia symptoms (n = 660) or nightmares (n = 312). Both...