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Nightmares, suicide attempts, and melancholic features in patients with unipolar major depression
Journal of Affective Disorders · Mart 2007
YÖKSİS Kayıtları
Nightmares suicide attempts and melancholic features in patients with unipolar major depression
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2007 SSCI 83 atıf
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Makale Bilgileri
DergiJournal of Affective Disorders
Yayın TarihiMart 2007
Cilt / Sayfa98 · 267-270
Scopus ID2-s2.0-33846425750
Özet
Objectives: Recently, there has been a growing interest in the relationship between sleep disturbances and suicidality in major depression. Sleep disturbances are one of the 'modifiable risks' for suicide in major depression. The present study examines whether there is a relationship among nightmares, suicide attempts, and melancholic features in unipolar major depressed patients. Methods: One hundred (49 males and 51 females) depressed patients with melancholic features and 49 (23 males and 26 females) patients without melancholic features were included in the study. All patients were classified as those who attempted suicide at least once during current depressive episode and as those who never attempted. Results: Melancholic attempters had higher rates of nightmares, middle, and terminal insomnia than melancholic non-attempters. There was no significant difference between non-melancholic patients with and without suicidal attempts in terms of the frequency of all types of insomnia and nightmares. Limitations: This study does not have polysomnographic records for sleep variables. Conclusions: Feeling worse in the morning than later in the day may be related to the intervening dream content and affect and predict suicidal tendency. Melancholia may be associated with increased risk of suicide attempts due to repetitive and frightening dreams. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Yazarlar (7)
1
Mehmet Yucel Agargun
2
Lutfullah Besiroglu
3
Ali Savaş Cilli
4
Mustafa Gulec
5
Adem Aydin
6
Rifat Inci
7
Yavuz Selvi
Anahtar Kelimeler
Depression
Insomnia
Melancholic features
Nightmares
Suicide
Kurumlar
Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi
Van Turkey
Metrikler
113
Atıf
7
Yazar
5
Anahtar Kelime