@article{ref1,
title="Evaluation of insomnia as a risk factor for suicide",
journal="Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas",
year="2017",
author="Escobar-Córdoba, Franklin and Quijano-Serrano, Margarita and Calvo-González, José Manuel",
volume="74",
number="1",
pages="37-45",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Perform a non-systematic review of the literature to describe the relationship between insomnia and suicide and the findings of these studies. <br><br>METHODS: A search was conducted in PubMed, Medline, SciELO, LILACS, and Cochrane Library OVID data combining MeSH terms: &quot;Suicide and sleep initiation and maintenance disorders&quot;. <br><br>RESULTS: Insomnia has been related to suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and suicide deaths in cross sectional studies since more than a decade. Suicide is one of the main causes of death. <br><br>DISCUSSION: There are multiple risk factors for committing suicide; some are unmodifiable, such as age, male gender and Caucasian ethnicity; and others are potentially modifiable, such as symptoms of depression, substance abuse and sleep disturbances. Among these disturbances, insomnia has been proven to hold a stronger relation to suicide attempts and deaths, although nightmares have also been associated. Actually, insomnia is considered a stronger predictor of lethal suicide attempts than the presence of a suicide plan. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Here lays the importance of why physicians must learn to detect and evaluate insomnia as a sign of alarm and a risk factor for suicide, no matter what illness the patient suffers from.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0014-6722",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}