Table 2.

Outcome measures and instruments

Outcome measures	Instrument
Primary1
Meaning	Personal Meaning Profile (PMP) [24]
Post Traumatic Growth	Post Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) [25]
Positive psychological functioning and wellbeing	Ryff’s Scale of Psychological Well-being (SPWB) [26]
Secondary2
Quality of life	30-item EORTC QLQ-C30 (version 3.0) [27,28]
Anxiety and Depression	Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [29]
Hopelessness	Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) [30,31]
Optimism	Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) [31,32]
Adjustment to cancer	Mental Adjustment to Cancer (MAC) [20]
Cost evaluation3	Trimbos and iMTA questionnaire on Costs associated with Psychiatric illness (TiC-P) [34,35]
	EQ-5D [36]
	PRODISQ [37]

¹Assessment at T0, T1, T2, T3, T4.

²Assessment at T0, T1, T2, and T3.

³Assessment at T0, T2, T3 and T4.