ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2021
Benefit finding in long-term prostate cancer survivors.
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- Factors associated with benefit finding and mental health of patients with cancer: a systematic review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022Pooled it
- The mediating role of resourcefulness in the relationship between perceived stress and benefit finding among non-small cell lung cancer patients: a cross-sectional study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Heterogeneity in benefit finding among breast cancer patients: a latent profile analysis and influencing factors.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Trajectories and predictors of benefit finding among patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A longitudinal observational study.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2025Article
- Relationship between symptom burden and benefit finding in patients with gastrointestinal cancers undergoing chemotherapy: the chain-mediating role of comprehensive needs and communication pattern.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- Benefit Finding: The Mediator Linking Social Support to Self - Management Efficacy in Gynecological Cancer.Cancer management and research · 2025Article
- Heterogeneity of benefit finding in maintenance hemodialysis patients: a decision tree-based subgroup analysis of self-efficacy and social support.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Benefit finding and its influencing factors in patients with thyroid cancer: A retrospective study.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2024Article
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- Benefit finding in chronic kidney disease patients receiving hemodialysis: a cross-sectional study.BMC nephrology · 2024Article
- The Chinese version of the general benefit finding scale (GBFS): Psychometric properties in a sample of college students.PloS one · 2024Article
- Benefit finding in individuals undergoing maintenance hemodialysis in Shanghai: a latent profile analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Association between self-disclosure and benefit finding of Chinese cancer patients caregivers: the mediation effect of coping styles.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
- Benefit finding in men affected by prostate cancer prior to and following radical prostatectomy - a cross-sectional study with a stratified sample.BMC cancer · 2023Article
- Prostate cancer-related anxiety among long-term survivors after radical prostatectomy: A longitudinal study.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
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- Impact of caregiver burden on caregiver mental health in patients with esophageal cancer: chain mediating effects of benefit finding and rumination, a cross-sectional study.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2022Article
- Biobehavioral Pathways and Cancer Progression: Insights for Improving Well-Being and Cancer Outcomes.Integrative cancer therapiesReview
- Self-efficacy in long-term prostate cancer survivors.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
purposeBenefit finding (BF) represents possible positive changes that people may experience after cancer diagnosis and treatment and has proven to be valuable to the psychological outcome. Knowledge of such beneficial consequences of prostate cancer (PCa) is limited in long-term survivors (> 5 years). Thus, the present study investigated the occurrence of benefit finding (BF) and its determinants in a large sample of (very-) long-term PCa survivors.
methodsBF was assessed in 4252 PCa survivors from the German database "Familial Prostate Cancer" using the German version of the Benefit Finding Scale (BFS). Associations between BF and sociodemographic, clinical, and psychosocial (e.g., depressive and anxiety symptoms and perceived severity of the disease experience) variables were analyzed using hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis.
resultsMean age at survey was 77.4 years (SD = 6.2) after a mean follow-up of 14.8 years (SD = 3.8). Mean BFS score was 3.14 (SD = 1.0); the prevalence of moderate-to-high BF (score ≥ 3) was 59.7%. Younger age at diagnosis, lower educational level, and higher perceived severity of the disease experience were predictive of BF. Objective disease severity or family history of PCa was not uniquely associated with BF.
conclusionsBF occurs in older, (very-) long-term PCa survivors. Our findings suggest that the self-asserted severity of the disease experience in a patient's biography is linked to BF in the survivorship course above all tangible sociodemographic and clinical factors. IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER SURVIVORS: PCa survivors may express BF regardless of clinical disease severity. Treating urologists should consider inquiring BF to enrich a patient's cancer narrative.
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