The New Zealand nuclear veteran and families study, exploring the options to assess heritable health outcomes.

Aims: To describe health conditions in New Zealand nuclear veterans and their offspring, and examine the utility of tests to assess their heritability.

Method: An online survey, open to all veterans and offspring, with questions on health conditions, the GHQ12 to measure psychological distress, the Euroquol-5D visual analogue scale (EQ5D VAS) to measure health state, and free text items on veteran support.

Results: Eighty-three responses (56%) were from veterans, 65 (44%) from offspring.