Sleep Disturbance Preceding Suicide Among Veterans

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ID11029163
AuthorsWilfred R Pigeon (0000-0002-5753-7840, Wilfred R. Pigeon is with VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Canandaigua, NY, Center for Integrated Healthcare, Syracuse Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, and the Department of PsychiatrySleep and Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY. Peter C. Britton and Kenneth R. Conner are with the VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua Veteran...), Peter C Britton (Wilfred R. Pigeon is with VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Canandaigua, NY, Center for Integrated Healthcare, Syracuse Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, and the Department of PsychiatrySleep and Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY. Peter C. Britton and Kenneth R. Conner are with the VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua Veteran...), Mark A Ilgen (0000-0003-3658-029X, Wilfred R. Pigeon is with VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Canandaigua, NY, Center for Integrated Healthcare, Syracuse Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, and the Department of PsychiatrySleep and Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY. Peter C. Britton and Kenneth R. Conner are with the VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua Veteran...), Benjamin P Chapman (0000-0002-5170-3131, Canandaigua VA Medical Center), Ben Chapman (0000-0002-1686-700X, Wilfred R. Pigeon is with VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Canandaigua, NY, Center for Integrated Healthcare, Syracuse Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, and the Department of PsychiatrySleep and Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY. Peter C. Britton and Kenneth R. Conner are with the VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua Veteran...), Kenneth R Conner (0000-0003-1083-5872, Wilfred R. Pigeon is with VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Canandaigua, NY, Center for Integrated Healthcare, Syracuse Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, and the Department of PsychiatrySleep and Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY. Peter C. Britton and Kenneth R. Conner are with the VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua Veteran...)
Year2012
Volume102
IssueS1
PagesS93-S97
Publication date2012-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2011.300470
PMID22390611
PMCIDPMC3496468
OpenAlexW2109032968
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited31

Objectives. We examined the role of sleep disturbance in time to suicide since the last treatment visit among veterans receiving Veterans Health Administration (VHA) services. Methods. Among 423 veteran suicide decedents from 2 geographic areas, systematic chart reviews were conducted on the 381 (90.1%) who had a VHA visit in the last year of life. Veteran suicides with a documented sleep disturbance (45.4%) were compared with those without sleep disturbance (54.6%) on time to death since their last VHA visit using an accelerated failure time model. Results. Veterans with sleep disturbance died sooner after their last visit than did those without sleep disturbance, after we adjusted for the presence of mental health or substance use symptoms, age, and region. Conclusions. Findings indicated that sleep disturbance was associated with time to suicide in this sample of veterans who died by suicide. The findings had implications for using the presence of sleep disturbance to detect near-term risk for suicide and suggested that sleep disturbance might provide an important intervention target for a subgroup of at-risk veterans

Disturbance (geology) · Injury prevention · Insomnia · Intervention (counseling) · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Psychiatry · Sleep (system call) · Sleep disorder · Suicide prevention · Emergency Medicine · Medicine · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Sleep and related disorders · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Gerontology

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