{"id":15293,"date":"2022-07-27T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/?p=15293"},"modified":"2022-07-24T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:06:11","slug":"science-good-sleep-lowers-suicide-risk-among-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/science-good-sleep-lowers-suicide-risk-among-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: Good Sleep Lowers Suicide Risk Among Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent study found that quality sleep helps prevent suicidal thoughts in young people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is well-known that adolescents and young adults contemplate suicide <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a lot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> more than older generations \u2014 a cognitive phenomenon known as <\/span><b>suicidal ideation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SI). As a matter of fact, suicide is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcplive.com\/view\/sleep-influences-risk-of-suicidal-ideation-young-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">second most common cause of mortality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for young adults and adolescents in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, a new <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rutgers University<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">led by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jessica L. Hamilton, Ph.D. of the Department of Psychology at Rutgers, suggests we can lower said figures by <\/span><b>improving sleep<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Namely, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/benefits-of-sleep\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sleep promotes emotional control<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and also boosts positive affective reactivity \u2014 the level of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">emotional reaction people exhibit during specific events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study was conducted in a <\/span><b>predominantly female<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (75%) study group of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.contemporarypediatrics.com\/view\/study-suggests-sleep-influences-risk-of-suicidal-ideation-in-young-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">59 participants<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aged 13 to 23 years, 44% of which had already attempted suicide. Moreover, researchers surveyed their sleeping patterns, SI, and affective reactivity through lengthy questionnaires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More precisely, participants were asked to note the level of their negative or positive thoughts related to events from 0 to 100. The results found that sleep quality primarily affected affective reactivity, with some minor personal differences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, subjects that didn\u2019t get enough sleep were less <\/span><b>likely to react positively to positive interpersonal events<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Conversely, well-rested participants were more likely to react positively to desired events and had fewer negative overreactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides the sleep duration, the doze-off schedule also proved essential in managing SI. In fact, those who went to bed later had <\/span><b>fewer positive reactions to undesired events<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and more negative ones \u2014 hence why the team deduced <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cognitive behavioral methods could help lower suicidal tendencies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study found that quality sleep helps prevent suicidal thoughts in young people. It is well-known that adolescents and young adults contemplate suicide a lot more than older generations \u2014 a cognitive phenomenon known as suicidal ideation (SI). As a matter of fact, suicide is the second most common cause of mortality for young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15295,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293\/revisions\/15295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}