The phrase 'affect depression' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any situation or action that has an influence on someone's depression—positively or negatively. For example: "I was worried that the news of the layoff would affect my brother's depression, but thankfully it turned out to be a sign of new opportunities for him."
So why does it affect depression?
"There's good evidence that diet can affect depression.
And if you really want to affect depression, it's nice to have therapies that work, and it's nice to have drugs that work.
In the middle of a recession, it's hard to feel sympathy for Coupland's clever-clever characters, Andy, Claire and Dag, as they sit around the pool in Palm Springs and affect depression because their jobs aren't fulfilling enough.
However, very few studies have addressed how DEM processing options such as smoothing and coarsening and setting area and depth thresholds can affect depression identification.
All participants provided a blood sample for monocyte phenotyping and completed questionnaires assessing pain, stress, fatigue, positive/negative affect, depression, sleep, and disease impact (FM group only).
Of note, in a mouse model of an anxiety/depression-like state induced by chronic corticosterone treatment, chronic antidepressant treatment has been shown to differentially affect depression-like behavior in specific tests, including the NSF, in a hippocampal neurogenesis-dependent manner.
Results show that the adversity of child maltreatment affects depression through attachment styles and low self-esteem among institutionalized children.
Our findings are correlational and cannot provide definitive evidence for a causal role of linkage to HIV care in affecting depression or stigma.
Some participants also expressed their interpretation of their families' motivations for delivering the messages and described how hearing these messages affected depression care.
Thus, we could not address whether the isotretinoin affected depression or suicide due to the limitation of the NHI database in this study.
