Decision Aid and Thyroid Nodules Management

Stony Brook University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Thyroid Nodule

Treatments: Behavioral: Thyroid Nodule Management Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05264857

SBU-DECISION-AID-THYROID

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with small favorable malignant or indeterminate thyroid nodules will receive information about management of thyroid nodules. Participants will be asked to complete brief surveys at the time of enrollment, shortly after the consultation appointment with the surgeon, and a few months after either the consultation or the surgery, to assess their satisfaction with their decision and decision making process. All participants will receive routine care and counseling by their endocrinologist and surgeon.

Enrollment: 134 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Histology showing indeterminate or malignant thyroid pathology (Bethesda III-VI)
• Thyroid nodule size less or equal to 2cm

Exclusion criteria

• History of thyroid surgery
• History of thyroid cancer

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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134 participants in 1 patient group

Thyroid nodule information

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Thyroid Nodule Management Education