Sleep Disturbances as an Evidence-Based Suicide Risk Factor

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Bernert, Rebecca A ^a   Kim, Joanne S ^a   Iwata, Naomi G ^a   Perlis, Michael L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Insomnia; Nightmares; Sleep disturbances; Sleep quality; Suicide

Indexed keywords

CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; DEATH; DEPRESSION ASSESSMENT; DSM-IV; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; INSOMNIA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NIGHTMARE; PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENT DISORDER; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP QUALITY; STUDY DESIGN; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSION; DREAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP DISORDER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DREAMS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84923228926     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-015-0554-4     Document Type: Review

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