Citation

Goldstein TR, Franzen PL. Curr. Opin. Psychol. 2020; 34: 27-31.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.08.021

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Studies have established a clear relationship between subjective sleep problems and the continuum of suicidality in adolescents. These studies are primarily cross-sectional in nature and conducted with epidemiological and depressed clinical samples. More recent studies focus on prospective data. Herein, we provide an update on current studies on the sleep-suicide association among youth. To further the critical mission of youth suicide prevention, future directions include more nuanced study of sleep employing a sleep health framework, longitudinal studies employing both objective and subjective sleep measures, fine-grained temporal associations between these constructs and their fluctuations over time, as well as enhanced understanding of the mechanisms underlying these associations.

Language: en