| First Author and Year | Country | Design | Recruitment Setting | Inclusion Criteria | Exclusion Criteria | Subjects with PTSD/Tot. Sample (%) | Mean Age or Range in Years; Cohort; Females’ Percentage | Instruments used to make PTSD diagnosis |
| Halligan 2002 [24] | United States | Cross-sectional | Lists obtained from the Jewish community or responded to community group announcements and newspaper advertisement. Participants of short-term group psychotherapy at the Mount Sinai Specialized Treatment Program for Holocaust Survivors and their families | Holocaust survivor offspring raised by a parents |
Not reported in the paper | 14/87 (16%) | 42.30; adults; 62% | Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS; Blake et al., 1995) |
| Kazlauskas 2017 [25] | Lithuania | Cross-sectional | data for this study from a database built up during the research project “Long-term Effects of Political Oppression in Lithuania” which aimed at exploring long-term effects of political violence (1940–1991) in Lithuania, and was conducted by the Vilnius University Trauma Research Group in collaboration with the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center (Gailiene & Kazlauskas, 2005 | Not reported in the paper | Not reported in the paper | 32/110 (29.10%) | 44.65; adults; 61.80% | Impact of Event-Scale Revised (IES-R; Weiss & Marmar, 1997) |
| Phillips 2002 [14] | United States | Cross-sectional | Six agencies in Arkansas and Texas recruited subjects from sequential intakes. These agencies included two not-for-profit child and adolescent mental health provider organizations, mental health clinics operated by two teaching hospitals, a psychiatric hospital, and an adolescent medicine clinic with mental health specialists on staff. | Not reported in the paper | Mental retardation (IQ < 70), psychosis. Adolescents were also excluded if an adult informant who had at least weekly contact with the adolescent during the previous six months was not available to serve as a co-informant. |
467/1869 (25%) | 13.7, Range = 11-18; adolescents; 42% | Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, Present State version (DISC-PS; Shaffer et al., 2000) |
| Shehadeh 2015 [14] | Palestinian State | Cross-sectional | Israeli prisons | Families with children between 3 and 10 years old and when there was more than 1 child in this age range. | Not reported in the paper | 20/79 (25%) | 7.7; children; 44.2% | UCLA-PTSD-Reaction Index (UCLA-PTSD-RI; Rodriguez et al., 1999) |
| Turanovic 2017 [16] | United States | Cross-sectional | Arizona Department of Corrections | Incarcerated mothers who reported having at least one minor child |
Not reported in the paper | 22/700 (3.2%) | Range: 1-17; children; not females’ percentage reported in the paper | Semi-structured interview |
| Zerach 2016 [17] | Israel | Longitudinal | Adult offspring of veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur War: adult children of former prisoners of war | Offspring of captured veterans | Not reported in the paper | 2/98 (2.7%) | 35.19, range = 22-53; adults; 53% | PTSD Inventory (Solomon et al., 1993) |