Unpacking Sleep and Suicide in Older Adults in a Combined Online Sample | Zendy

Shea Golding | Zendy; Michael R. Nadorff | Zendy; E. Samuel Winer | Zendy; Kathryn Claire Ward | Zendy

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Unpacking Sleep and Suicide in Older Adults in a Combined Online Sample

Author(s) -

Shea Golding,

Michael R. Nadorff,

E. Samuel Winer,

Kathryn Claire Ward

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of clinical sleep medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.529

H-Index - 92

eISSN - 1550-9397

pISSN - 1550-9389

DOI - 10.5664/jcsm.5270

Subject(s) - insomnia , medicine , depression (economics) , anxiety , clinical psychology , psychiatry , suicide prevention , poison control , anhedonia , young adult , injury prevention , psychology , gerontology , medical emergency , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , economics , macroeconomics

Duration of insomnia symptoms and nightmares are related to suicidal risk in young adults independent of current symptoms of insomnia, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. However, this relation has yet to be examined among older adults, despite older adults being at higher risk of suicidal behavior. Further, the current study aims to replicate previous research among younger adults showing that insomnia symptoms and nightmares are associated with suicide risk independent of the interpersonal psychological theory of suicide (IPTS).

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