A single study of moderate quality and generalisability reported that 4% to 7% of the surveyed adult children of Vietnam veterans and contemporaneous Defence members had a recorded criminal conviction. A comparable civilian population was not surveyed. The focus on a specific generational cohort of military offspring, and the lack of any supporting studies, means that there is very low certainty that this rate reflects the true prevalence rates in target population. was also some evidence that military dependents have similar or lower rates of hospital admissions for motor vehicle related injuries in which they were the driver than do non-military dependents. The lack of any supporting evidence of even moderate quality and generalisability means that there is a very low certainty that these results can be applied to the target population. No conclusions can be drawn as to whether there is a meaningful difference between the propensity of military and non-military offspring to engage in the measures of risk-taking behaviour investigated here. Further research is required, particularly in the Australian context, to obtain a better understanding of either the rates of risk-taking behaviour in the children of military parents or the relative propensity of military children to engage in taking behaviour.
A single study of moderate quality and generalisability reported that 4% to 7% of the surveyed adult children of Vietnam veterans and contemporaneous Defence members had a recorded criminal conviction. A comparable civilian population was not surveyed. The focus on a specific generational cohort of military offspring, and the lack of any supporting studies, means that there is very low certainty that this rate reflects the true prevalence rates in target population. was also some evidence that military dependents have similar or lower rates of hospital admissions for motor vehicle related injuries in which they were the driver than do non-military dependents. The lack of any supporting evidence of even moderate quality and generalisability means that there is a very low certainty that these results can be applied to the target population. No conclusions can be drawn as to whether there is a meaningful difference between the propensity of military and non-military offspring to engage in the measures of risk-taking behaviour investigated here. Further research is required, particularly in the Australian context, to obtain a better understanding of either the rates of risk-taking behaviour in the children of military parents or the relative propensity of military children to engage in behaviour. taking
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