title: Psychological stress in transplantation: a unified concept? What is measured and how: a literature review.
abstract: This article describes how the concept of stress is studied in the field of solid-organ transplantation. Sixty-five articles or reviews of scientific research on stress are analyzed. The question addressed was how stress is explored and defined in transplant research, as it is often referred to as affecting psychological and/or physical transplant outcomes.
authors.affiliation: University of Lausanne, Switzerland. christel.rapo@unil.ch
authors.forename: Christel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rapo
authors.forename: Chantal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Piot-Ziegler
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*