Sleep Disturbance Preceding Suicide Among Veterans

• DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2011.300470
• Publication Date: 2012-01-26T05:47:41Z
• Authors: Wilfred R. Pigeon; Peter C. Britton; Mark A. Ilgen; Ben Chapman; Kenneth R. Conner
• Keywords: Sleep

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