Insomnia risk factors
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] ; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Adnan Ezici, M.D[2]
Overview
Common risk factors in the development of insomnia include advancing age, poor health conditions, lack of social connection, and female gender.
Risk Factors
Common risk factors for insomnia include[1][2][3]:
- Gender (Female)
- Advancing age
- Lack of social connection
- Feeling lonely
- Widow/Divorced/Separated
- Feeling lonely
- Depression
- Anxiety or worry-prone personality
- Chronic daily stress
- Unemployed
- Lower educational qualification
- Economic inactivity
- Familial disposition
- Fear of not sleeping
- Increased arousal
- Irregular sleep scheduling
- Excessive caffeine use
- Irregular sleep schedules
- Major life events (e.g., illness, separation)
- Noise
- Poor sleep habits
- Light
- Poor sleep hygiene practices
- Tendency to repress emotions
- Uncomfortably high or low temperature
- High altitude
- Military Deployment
- Racial Discrimintion[4]
References
- ↑ “Insomnia Overview: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Monitoring, and Nonpharmacologic Therapy | AJMC”.
- ↑ Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5. Washington, D.C: American Psychiatric Association. 2013. ISBN 0890425558.
- ↑ Sutton EL (2021). “Insomnia”. Ann Intern Med. 174 (3): ITC33–ITC48. doi:10.7326/AITC202103160. PMID 33683929 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Cheng P, Cuellar R, Johnson DA, Kalmbach DA, Joseph CL, Cuamatzi Castelan A, Sagong C, Casement MD, Drake CL (October 2020). “Racial discrimination as a mediator of racial disparities in insomnia disorder”. Sleep Health. 6 (5): 543–549. doi:10.1016/j.sleh.2020.07.007. PMC 7485499 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32928711 Check|pmid=value (help).
© 2026 MyEClinic – IFTM Institut für Telematik in der Medizin GmbH