Citation

Gaviria SL, Alarcón RD, Espinola M, Restrepo D, Lotero J, Berbesi DY, Sierra GM, Chaskel R, Espinel Z, Shultz JM. Disaster Health 2016; 3(4): 139-150.

Affiliation

Center for Disaster & Extreme Event Preparedness (DEEP Center), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine , Miami, FL, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/21665044.2016.1263086

PMID

28265488

PMCID

PMC5325465

Abstract

Colombia, South America is currently transitioning to post-conflict status following 6 decades of armed conflict. The population has experienced extensive exposures to potentially traumatic events throughout the lifespan. Sources of trauma exposure include the prolonged armed insurgency, narco-trafficking violence, urban gang violence, violent actions of criminal bands, intra-familial violence, gender-based violence, and sex trafficking. Exposure to potentially traumatic events is related to a variety of psychiatric outcomes, in particular, posttraumatic stress disorder. Given this context of lifetime trauma exposure, socio-demographic patterns of posttraumatic stress disorder were explored in a sample of residents of Medellin, Colombia, the nation's second largest city and a nexus for multiple types of trauma exposure.

Language: en

Keywords

Colombia; PTEs; PTSD; armed conflict; posttraumatic stress disorder; potentially traumatic events; rurality; trauma exposure; urbanicity