ArticleJournal of endocrinological investigation2017
Quality of life after thyroid surgery.
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- Patients undergoing thyroid surgery suffer preoperatively from poor quality of life.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2025Article
- Pro-Health Behaviours and Depressive Symptoms as Well as Satisfaction with and Quality of Life Among Women with Hashimoto's Disease.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Research on a machine learning method for predicting discharge time of thyroid cancer patients receivingFrontiers in physiology · 2025Article
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- Health-related quality of life following FDG-PET/CT for cytological indeterminate thyroid nodules.Endocrine connections · 2022Article
- Impact of thyroidectomy on quality of life in benign goitres: results from a prospective cohort study.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2022Article
- Quality of life and surgical outcome of ABBA versus EndoCATS endoscopic thyroid surgery: a single center experience.Surgical endoscopy · 2022Article
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- Distress, anxiety, depression and unmet needs in thyroid cancer survivors: a longitudinal study.Endocrine · 2021Article
- Morbidity following thyroid surgery: acceptable rates and how to manage complicated patients.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2019Review
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to inquire how patients' quality of life is affected after thyroid surgery and the factors involved.
methodsA semi-structured questionnaire and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (WHOQOL-BREF) were applied to 101 patients prior to surgery. Thereafter data was collected in the early and again in the late post-operative period.
resultsMean general health score for pre-operative quality of life was 6.72 ± 1.53 (3-10), mean physical field score was 22.81 ± 2.77 (17-31), mean psychological field score was 21.69 ± 2.78 (15-28), mean social field score was 11.10 ± 1.94 (5-15) and mean environmental field score was 27.86 ± 4.30 (18-39). In the early post-operative period, mean general health score was 7.05 ± 1.45 (4-10), mean physical field score was 22.84 ± 2.83 (14-29), mean psychological field score was 21.67 ± 2.32 (16-27), mean social field score was 10.89 ± 1.96 (5-15) and mean environmental field score was 28.56 ± 4.18 (18-40). In the late post-operative period, the general health score for quality of life was 7.43 ± 1.34 (4-10), mean physical field score was 23.59 ± 2.70 (17-35), mean psychological field score was 21.75 ± 2.34 (14-29), mean social field score was 11.23 ± 1.94 (6-15) and mean on-field environment score was 29.30 ± 3.96 (16-40). The pre-operative levels of symptoms were found to be higher than early and late post-operative periods.
conclusionsQuality of life increased after total thyroidectomy and statistically significant improvement was observed in late post-operative stage.
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