The phrase 'affects depression' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to how something influences someone's mental state, such as depression. For example, "The long hours he works affects his depression."
Results show that the adversity of child maltreatment affects depression through attachment styles and low self-esteem among institutionalized children.
This means that what affects depression and suicidality is not parental separation per se, but rather parental harmony on the one hand, and perceived quality of the adolescents' relationships with mother and father, on the other.
To examine the agreement between depression symptoms using an assessment tool (PHQ-9), and physician documentation of the same symptoms during a clinic visit, and then to examine how the presence of these symptoms affects depression diagnosis in primary care settings.
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).
LGI1 mutations do not appear to affect depression independently of epilepsy (Heiman et al., 2010).
The combined measures also provide targets for interventions (mastery and coping) that may affect depression.
