Verbal Synchrony, Satisfaction and Decision-making in Face-to-face Consultations

European Institute of Oncology

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Thyroid Nodule

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06342739

IEO 1595

Details and patient eligibility

About

Eligible participants will be: benign thyroid nodules patients, to be involved in a consultation with their endocrinologist and/or surgeon and/or radiologist, in order to discuss treatment options related to benign thyroid nodules.

Full description

Eligible participants will be: benign thyroid nodules patients, to be involved in a consultation with their endocrinologist and/or surgeon and/or radiologist, in order to discuss treatment options related to benign thyroid nodules. Endocrinologist and/or surgeon and/or radiologist involved in the consultation will be recruited as well.

Before the scheduled consultation with endocrinologist, surgeon or radiologist, benign thyroid nodules patients will be screened for eligibility by a researcher and a physician from the Interventional Radiology Unit.

If patients meet all the inclusion criteria, they will be contacted by the researcher and proposed to participate. The day of the consultations, researcher will meet participants face to face, they will answer any questions should arise and will ask them to sign the informed consent form.

Benign thyroid nodules patients have a specific clinical pathway, in which they may have consultations with endocrinologists, and/or with surgeon, and/or with radiologists. Patients will be recruited before their first consultation and then, if they are scheduled to have other consultations with other professionals, will be recruited as well for the following consultations.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Specifically, to be eligible for the inclusion in this study, each patient has to fulfill all these criteria:

• diagnosis of benign thyroid nodule;
• scheduled consultation with endocrinologist and/or surgeon and/or radiologist to discuss treatment options related to benign thyroid nodule;
• ≥18 years old at the time of recruitment;
• proper understanding of Italian language;
• fluent Italian speaker;
• able to comply to requested procedures to obtain audio-video recording.

Each professional has to fulfill these criteria:

• proper understanding of Italian language;
• fluent Italian speaker;
• able to comply to requested procedures to obtain audio-video recording.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with diagnosed mental or neurological disorder that could impair the participation will be excluded from the study.

Trial design

60 participants in 1 patient group

Benign thyroid nodules group

Description:

Participants with benign thyroid nodules involved in a consultation with endocrinologist and/or surgeon and/or radiologist, in order to discuss treatment options related to benign thyroid nodules