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tornpentacle t1_j697whr wrote

Reply to comment by Fromnowhere2nowhere in Researchers has found a link in sleep problems and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. A study found sleep disturbances were prevalent among those with lifetime suicidal ideation or a lifetime suicide attempt. by Wagamaga

10% is really high, that's kinda the point they're making. There is a correlation. It can be used as a predictive tool. That's 20x higher than lifetime adult suicide attempts.

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Fromnowhere2nowhere t1_j69ke8z wrote

I think you may be misreading the data. What they found, as far as I can tell, was 10% prevalence in suicide attempts by all participants, not just those with insomnia. (Among those with insomnia, the percent was much higher.)

My point is to question whether they started with a representative sample of students, if 10% of the general sample (before accounting for insomnia) had attempted suicide.

… I wish I had access to the full article and not just the abstract! Makes it hard to understand what exactly the data are saying.

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