Objective To investigate the influencing factors of hypoparathyroidism in patients after thyroidectomy and establish a predictive model. Methods Clinical data of 222 patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma who underwent thyroidectomy were collected. According to the presence and absence of post-thyroidectomy hypoparathyroidism, they were divided into an occurrence group (74 cases) and a non-occurrence group (148 cases). The influencing factors of hypoparathyroidism in patients after thyroidectomy were analyzed, and a predictive model was established accordingly. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was adopted to evaluate the predictive efficacy of the established model. Results The incidence of hypoparathyroidism in patients after thyroidectomy was 33.33%. Compared with the non-occurrence group, the occurrence group had a higher proportion of patients complicated with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, tumor capsule invasion, bilateral central neck lymph node dissection and lateral neck lymph node dissection, and a lower proportion of patients with unilateral central neck lymph node dissection (P<0.05). Results of multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that intraoperative bilateral central neck lymph node dissection and lateral neck lymph node dissection, tumor capsule invasion, and preoperatively complicated with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, were independent risk factors for post-thyroidectomy hypoparathyroidism in patients undergoing thyroidectomy (P<0.05). The predictive model established based on the aforementioned risk factors was expressed as Log(P) = 1.392+0.548× complicated with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis +0.664× tumor capsule invasion +0.780× bilateral central neck lymph node dissection + 0.677× lateral neck lymph node dissection. For this model, the area under the ROC curve was 0.937 (95%CI: 0.908, 0.966), with a sensitivity of 88.61% and a specificity of 86.03%. Conclusion Bilateral central neck lymph node dissection and lateral neck lymph node dissection during throidectomy, preoperatively complicated with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, and tumor capsule invasion are independent risk factors for post-thyroidectomy hypoparathyroidism in patients undergoing thyroidectomy, and the predictive model established based on the aforementioned factors can effectively predict the occurrence of hypoparathyroidism in patients.