European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society
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To analyse the psychometric properties and performance of existing instruments that aim to measure benefit finding in adult cancer populations. ⋯ One instrument reported validation statistics for all the identified criteria. While existing instruments provide a range of operationalisations of the benefit finding concept and have been more or less used in previous research, a majority are in the early stages of development and require further validation work in adult cancer populations. Given the increasing interest in the role benefit finding in clinical practice, researchers are urged to use these instruments further and to report relevant validation statistics when using them.