Intergenerational transmission of post‐traumatic stress disorder in Australian Vietnam veterans’ families

Objective To assess the association between parental post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and offspring PTSD and its specificity for other disorders in a non‐clinical epidemiological cohort of Australian Vietnam veterans, their partners and their sons and daughters. Method Veterans were interviewed twice, in 1992–1994 and 2005–2006; partners were interviewed in 2006–2007, and their offspring in 2012–2014. A total of 125 sons and 168 daughters...