The purpose of this study was to study the range of psychological and psychopathological violations in internally displaced persons (IDP).

To realize the goal of the study, we examined 180 IDP that live in the modular town “Nadia” (Kharkiv), the modular town (Sokolove village, Kharkiv region), Rubizhne (Luhans’k region), 30 from which they received inpatient treatment in the Department of Borderline Psychiatry of the “Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the Natio nal Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine”, SI. Among the surveyed were 116 wo men (mean age 38.9 years) and 63 men (mean age 41.2 years).

A comprehensive analysis of the data allowed three groups to be identifi ed among the surveyed: 1) IDP with no psychiatric disorders (53.3 %); 2) IDP with the presence of the risk of mental disorders (the presence of certain psychopathological symptoms) (28.8 %); 3) IDP with existing mental disorders (17.8 %).

The researches allowed to determine the factors of mental traumatism, emotional disturbances, coping strategies and peculiarities of the mental state in the IDP.

Diff erent interventions are expec ted for each group to be used at the next stage of the study.