title: The association between sleep disturbances and suicidal behaviors in patients with psychiatric diagnoses: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Identifying patients with increased risk of suicidal behaviors is a constant challenge and concern for clinicians caring for patients with psychiatric conditions. We conducted a systematic review to assess the association between suicidal behaviors and sleep disturbances in psychiatric patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  A systematic literature search of Ovid Medline In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE, Ovid PsycInfo, Ovid Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Ovid Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Scopus was conducted using earliest inclusive dates to 28 June 2013. Eligible studies were comparative observational studies that reported sleep disturbances in psychiatric patients and the outcome of interest (any type of suicidal behaviors). Pairs of reviewers extracted descriptive data, study quality, and outcomes. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were pooled across studies using the random-effects model. Newcastle-Ottawa scale was used to critically appraise study quality.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nineteen studies met the inclusion criteria. Compared to those without sleep disturbances, patients with psychiatric diagnoses and co-morbid sleep disturbances were significantly more likely to report suicidal behaviors (OR = 1.99, 95% CI 1.72, 2.30, P <0.001). The association was also demonstrated across several psychiatric conditions including depression (OR = 3.05, 95% CI 2.07, 4.48, P <0.001), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (OR = 2.56, 95% CI 1.91, 3.43, P <0.001), panic disorder (OR = 3.22, 95% CI 1.09, 9.45, P = 0.03), and schizophrenia (OR = 12.66, 95% CI 1.40, 114.44, P = 0.02). In subgroup analysis based on the type of sleep disorder, we also found suicidal behavior to be significantly associated with the presence of insomnia, parasomnias, and sleep-related breathing disorders, but not hypersomnias.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This systematic review and meta-analysis suggests that in patients with psychiatric diagnoses, sleep disturbances are associated with the increased risk of suicidal behaviors.
authors.forename: Shaista
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Malik
authors.forename: Amrit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kanwar
authors.forename: Leslie A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Sim
authors.forename: Larry J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Prokop
authors.affiliation: Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA. wang.zhen@mayo.edu.
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Khalid
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Benkhadra
authors.forename: Mohammad Hassan
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Murad
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*