TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2024//
TI  - Impact of an internet-based insomnia intervention on suicidal ideation and associated correlates in veterans at elevated suicide risk
JO  - Translational behavioral medicine
A1  - Brenner, Lisa A.
A1  - Forster, Jeri E.
A1  - Hostetter, Trisha A.
A1  - Monteith, Lindsey L.
A1  - Barnes, Sean M.
A1  - Sun, Shengnan
A1  - Nazem, Sarra
A1  - Galfalvy, Hanga
A1  - Haghighi, Fatemeh
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Improving public health approaches to suicide prevention requires scalable evidence-based interventions that can be easily disseminated. Given empirical data supporting the association between insomnia and suicide risk, internet-delivered insomnia interventions are promising candidates to meet this need. The purpose of this study was to examine whether an unguided internet-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia (iCBT-I) improved insomnia severity, suicidal ideation (SI), and suicide risk correlates (depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, hostility, belongingness, hopelessness, agitation, irritability, concentration) in a sample of veterans. Secondary data analysis of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn veterans (n = 50) with clinically significant insomnia and elevated SI drawn from a larger randomized controlled trial (RCT) of an iCBT-I, Sleep Healthy Using the Internet (SHUTi). Two-sample t-tests or Wilcoxon rank sum tests were used to evaluate between-group differences (SHUTi vs. Insomnia Education Website control) in symptom improvement from baseline to post-intervention. SHUTi participants experienced a significant improvement in insomnia severity (P <.001; d = -1.08) and a non-significant with small (subthreshold medium) effect size reduction of SI (P =.17, d = 0.40), compared to control participants. Significant improvement in hopelessness was observed (medium effect size), with non-significant small to medium effect size reductions in most remaining suicide risk correlates. Self-administered iCBT-I was associated with improvements in insomnia severity in veterans at elevated risk for suicide. These preliminary findings suggest that SI and suicide risk correlates may improve following an iCBT-I intervention, demonstrating the need for future well-powered iCBT-I RCTs targeted for populations at elevated suicide risk.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1869-6716
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibae032
ID  - ref1
ER  -