Rebecca Robbins, PhD, of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Psychiatry Research, 'Exploring sleep difficulties, alcohol, illicit drugs, and suicidal ideation among adolescents with a history of depression.
Mass General BrighamAug 2 2024 Rebecca Robbins, PhD, of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women's Hospital , is the senior author of a paper published in Psychiatry Research , "Exploring sleep difficulties, alcohol, illicit drugs, and suicidal ideation among adolescents with a history of depression."Suicide is one of the leading causes of death for adolescents in the U.S.
Using responses from the 2015 to 2020 National Surveys of Drug Use and Health , our team analyzed and quantified the associations between sleep difficulties and suicidal ideation among adolescents with a history of depression and how these associations were amplified by illicit drug and/or alcohol abuse/dependence.
Related StoriesFrom that dataset, 11.6% reported thinking about suicide, 5.7% reported planning a suicide attempt and 3.8% reported making a suicide attempt. Additionally, 16.7% reported sleeping difficulties. Respondents who engaged with alcohol abuse had associations with sleep difficulties and attempts of suicide. Respondents who partook in illicit drug abuse had associations with sleep difficulties and thinking and attempting suicide.
There are a few limitations to our study, therefore, our results should be interpreted with caution. In the dataset, there was one question about sleeping difficulties. In addition, based on the format of the questions in the survey, it's possible sleep difficulty and suicide behavior symptoms were experienced more than one year before and alcohol and illicit drug use occurred in the year prior to the responses.
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