- Title
- Intergenerational transmission of post-traumatic stress disorder in Australian Vietnam veterans' families
- Creator
- O'Toole, B. I.; Burton, M. J.; Rothwell, A.; Outram, S.; Dadds, M.; Catts, S. V.
- Relation
- Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Vol. 135, Issue 5, p. 363-372
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acps.12685
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- 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 were interviewed from 197 families, 137 of which also included partners who were the mothers of the children. Statistical analysis used multi-level modelling to compute odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals while controlling for clustering effects within families. Parent PTSD diagnoses were examined for associations with offspring trauma exposure, PTSD and other psychiatric diagnoses. Results: Veteran PTSD increased the risk of PTSD and no other disorder in both sons and daughters; partner PTSD did not. Veteran depression was also a risk factor for sons' PTSD, and alcohol disorder was linked to alcohol dependence in sons and PTSD in daughters, but not when controlling for veteran PTSD. Conclusion: We conclude that PTSD in a Vietnam veteran father increases the risk specifically for PTSD in his sons and daughters.
- Subject
- post-traumatic stress disorder; epidemiology; family studies; gender; trauma
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1355719
- Identifier
- uon:31518
- Identifier
- ISSN:0001-690X
- Language
- eng
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