Quality Of Life In People Victims Of The Armed Conflict: Cordoba Case (Colombia)

The chapter seeks to identify the current state of the quality of life and its dimensions in 209 people victims of the armed conflict in Cordoba, benefited with some measure of attention, assistance, and reparation of Law 1448 of 2011. According to the quantitative level paradigm descriptive-transversal, the study made use of a brief sociodemographic survey and the whoqol-bref quality of life questionnaire proposed by the World Health Organization. Among the results, it was found that most of the participants were women, lived in the urban area, with an income below the legal minimum wage in force in Colombia and were victims of forced displacement. These people have been repaired by the State through compensation, in greater proportion. According to the comparison of the psychological variable of study in terms of sociodemographic and victimological, domains of quality of life have significant differences according to sex, marital status, type of housing, work condition, level of income and victimizing fact, at least in one of the whoqol-bref domains. This implies that the actions presented by the State do not present in the victims of Cordoba a difference between one and another measure of reparation.