Watching a video before surgery may calm your nerves
NCT ID NCT04571736
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study is testing whether giving patients unlimited access to a secure website with an explanatory video about thyroid surgery can lower their anxiety before the operation. About 220 adults scheduled for thyroid surgery will take part. Researchers will measure anxiety using standard questionnaires and compare results to usual care.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- access to an internet information platform with an explanatory video
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could give doctors a simple, low-cost way to help patients feel less anxious before thyroid surgery.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small pilot study, so results may not apply to all patients. The benefit over standard care may be small or none.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 220 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Nov 2020
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 75 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age between 18 and 75, * Indication of lobo-isthmectomy or total thyroidectomy * Compliance for the completion of self-questionnaires * Person affiliated or beneficiary of a social security scheme. * Free, informed and written consent signed by the participant and the investigator (at the latest on the day of inclusion and before any examination required by the research). Exclusion Criteria: * Difficulty understanding the French language * Lack of internet access * Persons placed under the protection of justice, * Person under guardianship or curatorship * Person participating in another research including an exclusion period still in progress, * Subject with severely impaired physical and / or psychological health, which, according to the investigator, may affect the compliance of the study participant * Pregnant / lactating woman
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CHU Gui de Chauliac
RECRUITINGMontpellier, Hérault, 34295, France
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