Worries and Benefit Finding in Cancer Survivors and Parents: A Longitudinal Study.
Sofie PrikkenKoen RaymaekersJurgen LemiereTrui VercruysseAnne UyttebroeckKoen LuyckxPublished in: Journal of pediatric psychology (2022)
Benefit finding was related both to positive well-being and negative illness experiences, which calls for more research to unravel the different functions of benefit finding over time. Clinicians should be encouraged to attend to positive illness experiences along with more negative ones to obtain a more nuanced view on the illness experiences of survivors and their families.