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
Overview
Common risk factors in the development of insomnia include advancing age, poor health conditions, lack of social connection, and female gender.
Risk Factors
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
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
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