TABLE 1.
Overview of the questionnaires developed for benign thyroid diseases
| ThyPRO | ThyPRO‐39 | Thy‐R‐HRQoL | Thy‐D‐QOL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authors | Watt et al. | Watt et al. | Kaniuka‐Jakubowska et al. | McMillan |
| Type of disease | Benign thyroid disease | Benign thyroid disease | Euthyroid goitre | Hypothyroidism |
| No of items | 85 | 39 | 49 | 20 |
| Available languages | Danish, English, Dutch, Italian, Serbian, Indian, Swedish, Spanish, Filipino, Greek, Thai, Polish, Romanian | Danish, English, Romanian, Greek, German | English, Polish | English, German, Greek, Portuguese, Turkish |
| Internal consistency | >0.83 | ‐ | >0.9 | 0.949 |
| Test–Retest‐Reliability | >0.77 | >0.75 | ‐ | ‐ |
| External validity | SF‐36, HADS | ThyPRO | ‐ | SF‐36, Beck |
| construct validity | Factor analysis, multitrait | Factor analysis | ‐ | Factor analysis |
| Criterion validity | Known‐groups, DIF | Known‐groups | ‐ | ‐ |
| Availability | ✆ | ✆ |
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| Answering time | 14 min | 4 min | ‐ |
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Note: ‐, No information available or not evaluated.
✆: Available from author; 
available with the following link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2018.00114/full#supplementary‐material.