After analyzing the interview data, three themes were finally derived: (1) patients’ psychological distress after experiencing thyroid cancer; (2) patients’ post-traumatic growth-promoting factors; and (3) patients’ post-traumatic growth experience. Among them, psychological distress after experiencing thyroid cancer included two sub-themes of multiple stressors and stress reactions; post-traumatic growth-promoting factors of patients included three sub-themes of cognitive processing, positive coping and multi-source support; post-traumatic growth experience of patients included two sub-themes of personal change and interpersonal relationship improvement.The thematic framework is shown in Figure 1.