Validación de la Escala de Trauma Psicosocial (ETAPS) en una muestra de personas víctimas del conflicto armado en Colombia

Introduction: The Colombian armed conflict has caused psychological damage, and collective wounds in social relationship networks and scenarios. Martín-Baró defined this damage as psychosocial trauma, which led to the definition of its theoretical dimensions and the development of the Psychosocial Trauma Scale (ETAPS). Objective: To validate the ETAPS in a sample of victims of the Colombian armed conflict. Methods: Instrumental study to assess the construct validity and internal consistency of the ETAPS (composed of 61 items) in a sample of 380 adults (80% women and 20% men) who have been victims of the Colombian armed conflict, mostly of internal displacement (91.1%). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were carried out, and the discriminatory power of the items, the correlation between factors and the reliability of the scale were analyzed. Results: We propose a new version ETAPS 0.2 composed of 39 items grouped into 4 dimensions: Repression and abuse, Threat and fear, Negative intergroup emotions, and Destruction of sociality. The scale shows good levels of reliability, with a range between = 0.80 and = 0.84. Conclusions: The scale is an assessment instrument provided with theoretical coherence, which can contribute to the design of psychological and psychosocial intervention strategies and programs aimed at promoting mental health.