The phrase "affected partner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a partner who has been impacted or influenced by a particular situation or event.
Example: "In the negotiation process, it is essential to consider the needs and concerns of the affected partner to reach a fair agreement."
Alternatives: "impacted partner" or "influenced partner".
Such is the case with achondroplasia, so that a couple with one affected partner and one unaffected partner will typically see half of their children affected, whereas a couple with both partners affected will see two-thirds of their surviving children affected and one-third unaffected, because 1 out of 4 conceptions will produce a homozygous fetus who will die before or shortly after birth.
Dr. Glantz said he undertook the study because in caring for patients with brain tumors, he developed a sense that there was a high rate of divorce and "the burden fell primarily on the woman when she was the affected partner".
These observations are conspicuously true of cognitive impairment: Dementia in one spouse greatly increases the risk of dementia in the other, and spousal closeness decreases dementia progression in the affected partner [ 50, 51].
Looking at the specific somatic conditions, it is clear that the occurrence of physical disability in the affected partner between T1 and T2 has a significant effect on the caregiving spouses' level of distress, for both male and female partners.
In cases where the somatic condition is not curable, interventions to relieve psychological distress in the affected partner may also relieve much of the caregivers' distress, which to a large extent seems to be mediated through the ill persons' distress.
Our aim was to explore the association between the affected partners' status as ill or healthy at baseline (T1) and follow-up (T2), and the spouses' level of distress at T2, adjusting for spousal distress at T1.
While no one client accounts for a huge percentage of Andersen's $4.9 billion in annual revenue, the loss of several hundred million dollars in revenue will affect partner compensation, said someone informed of the finances of big accounting firms.
Qualitative studies are needed to better understand how contextual factors affect partner disclosure.
Among the best known context factors to affect partner choice of migrants is the size of migrant communities (Blau 1994; Klein 2001; Lieberson and Waters 1988).
For those who know and who disclose their HIV status, the infection could affect partner relations; and as the longer term debilitating consequences of the infection come into play, loss of income could affect food security and income parity.
This finding may indicate that attending university during the same time-span can influence the similarity of physicians' mental models, blueprints, and schemata, which can later affect partner selection within hospital organizations.
