La Polivictimización, la Presencia de Síntomas TEPT y la Afectación en la Funcionalidad de las Personas que Son Víctimas del Desplazamiento Forzado: Estudio Comparativo.

Colombia is one of the countries where the armed conflict has been expressed through different forms of violence, causing the victims to experience multiple traumatic situations. The aim of this study is to compare the number of traumatic events experienced, the presence of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), and the deterioration of functioning among victims of forced displacement in the context of the armed conflict who meet and do not meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD, through the application of the EGEP-5, which is an instrument that evaluates the presence of post-traumatic symptoms and diagnosis of PTSD. The study is non-experimental, cross-sectional, and descriptive in scope. The results showed that 45.6% of the total sample met all the PTSD criteria, presenting in turn a greater number of traumatic events, though polyvictimization was identified in the two study samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]