Citation

Dolsen EA, Byers AL, Flentje A, Goulet JL, Jasuja GK, Lynch KE, Maguen S, Neylan TC. Neurobiol. Stress 2022; 21.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ynstr.2022.100488

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Sleep disturbance has emerged as an independent, mechanistic, and modifiable risk factor for suicide. Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people disproportionately experience sleep disturbance and are at higher risk of death by suicide relative to cisgender and/or heterosexual individuals. The present narrative review evaluates nascent research related to sleep disturbance and suicide-related thoughts and behaviors (STBs) among SGM populations, and discusses how experiences of minority stress may explain heightened risk among SGM people. Although there is a growing understanding of the link between sleep disturbance and STBs, most research has not been conducted in SGM populations or has not examined suicide as an outcome. Research is needed to examine whether and how aspects of sleep disturbances relate to STBs among SGM people in order to better tailor sleep treatments for SGM populations. © 2022

Language: en

Keywords

human; cognition; mental health; suicide; Suicide; morality; insomnia; sleep; depression; mortality; gender identity; risk factor; death; mental disease; sexual orientation; behavior; sleep disorder; REM sleep; emotion; nightmare; brain function; homophobia; Article; sleep time; sleep disordered breathing; polysomnography; Minority stress; cognitive behavioral therapy; physiological stress; Sleep disturbance; LGBTQ; sexual and gender minority; LGBTQIA+ people; Gender minority people; Sexual minority people