Quality of Life and Surgical Outcome of Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach (TOETVA) versus Open Thyroid Surgery: Experience from a Single Center in Vietnam

Table 5

SF-36 score comparison between the TOETVA group and open surgery group at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 12 weeks after surgery.

Time	4 weeks			8 weeks			12 weeks
SF36	TOETVA	OS	value	TOETVA	OS	value	TOETVA	OS	value
Physical function (PF)	78.5 ± 20.7	71.5 ± 23.1	0.09	86.3 ± 17.9	85.0 ± 18.4	0.69	91.3 ± 15.9	88.2 ± 14.7	0.26
Role physic (RP)	74.6 ± 34.9	42.6 ± 37.2	0.0001	86.6 ± 23.8	81.5 ± 29.0	0.29	94.7 ± 13.2	89.3 ± 20.2	0.08
Role emotion (RE)	79.3 ± 34.7	46.4 ± 40.0	0.0001	84.3 ± 22.2	67.3 ± 25.6	0.0002	85.7 ± 18.9	78.6 ± 24.7	0.08
Vitality (VT)	66.1 ± 17.6	55.7 ± 19.1	0.003	76.8 ± 22.3	70.1 ± 26.7	0.14	78.7 ± 20.5	74.6 ± 19.2	0.26
Mental health (MH)	72.8 ± 16.5	69.9 ± 14.6	0.32	83.7 ± 20.3	81.5 ± 21.8		89.0 ± 16.9	87.8 ± 10.9	0.64
Social function (SF)	75.2 ± 24.4	71.6 ± 20.0	0.37	84.8 ± 13.2	81.2 ± 17.3		88.2 ± 15.7	83.4 ± 19.5	0.14
Bodily pain (BP)	77.5 ± 18.3	70.3 ± 19.8	0.043	81.1 ± 19.7	79.7 ± 23.1	0.72	92.1 ± 19.7	89.2 ± 19.9	0.42
General health (GH)	65.4 ± 17.5	56.6 ± 18.1	0.009	73.1 ± 22.1	71.4 ± 25.3	0.69	78.0 ± 20.1	76.5 ± 15.6	0.65