Measuring Patient Expectations for Thyroid Surgery

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Thyroid Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: CITSAV survey; Behavioral: patient interviews

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01412762

11-087

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to learn more about what patients undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer expect from their surgery. Your input may help us to better prepare and inform patients about their disease and its treatment.

Enrollment: 138 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥18 years
• English speaking
• Patients with confirmed thyroid malignancy confirmed by preoperative fine needle biopsy (any stage) planned for surgical excision

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to speak or understand English
• Inability to provide meaningful informed consent due to physical, cognitive, or psychiatric disability
• Prior thyroid surgery
• Prior radioactive iodine treatment, external beam radiation or chemotherapy

Trial design

138 participants in 1 patient group

patient interviews

Description:

We aim to interview 15 patients with confirmed thyroid malignancy both pre- and postoperatively, for a total of 30 interviews. For the expansion of this study, we will accrue 25 patients with biopsy-proven thyroid cancer undergoing thyroidectomy to be educated with the CITSAV application prior to surgery.

Treatment:

Behavioral: patient interviews

Behavioral: CITSAV survey