{"id":225540,"date":"2025-11-20T20:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/nighttime-phone-use-linked-to-higher-levels-of-suicidal-thoughts-in-high-risk-adults"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:05:49","slug":"nighttime-phone-use-linked-to-higher-levels-of-suicidal-thoughts-in-high-risk-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/nighttime-phone-use-linked-to-higher-levels-of-suicidal-thoughts-in-high-risk-adults","title":{"rendered":"Nighttime phone use linked to higher levels of suicidal thoughts in high-risk adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nighttime-phone-use-linked-to-higher-levels-of-suicidal-thoughts-in-high-risk-adults3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patterns of smartphone use and their impact on mental health are being extensively studied due to the growing dependence of the device in people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study tracked late-night smartphone usage in 79 adults with recent suicidal thoughts for 28 days. People using phones late between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. showed a higher risk of suicidal thoughts the next day, whereas those who actively used the keyboard beyond midnight hours showed a lower risk.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2841241\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in JAMA Network Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patterns of smartphone use and their impact on mental health are being extensively studied due to the growing dependence of the device in people\u2019s lives. A recent study tracked late-night smartphone usage in 79 adults with recent suicidal thoughts for 28 days. People using phones late between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. showed a higher [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}