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Article: Parental insomnia linked to sleep problems, suicidal thoughts in adolescent kids
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- The Hindustan Times
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- June 13, 2008
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Washington, June 13 -- A new study has found that adolescent kids of parents who suffer from chronic insomnia are not just at a greater risk of insomnia themselves, but are also prone to suicidal behaviour and use of hypnotics and psychopathology.
The study, authored by Xianchen Liu, MD, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, focused on 798 teenagers (450 boys and 348 girls), with an average age of 14.4 years, who completed a sleep and health questionnaire.
According to the results, compared with adolescents of parents without insomnia, participants of insomnia parents were more than twice more likely to report insomnia, ...
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