The phrase "as a precipitating factor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that causes or contributes to a particular event or situation.
Example: "The lack of proper funding acted as a precipitating factor in the project's failure."
Alternatives: "as a contributing factor" or "as a triggering factor".
In addition, only a small percentage of reported youth suicides specifically listed bullying as a precipitating factor (around 3.2percentt from 2005-2008).
However, healing of the skin lesions occurred in 8 patients only between days 14 and 21 possibly reflecting the reduced repair competence in aged patients and the continued persistence of incontinence as a precipitating factor.
As childhood maltreatment represents a robust risk factor associated with NSSI [ 44] future studies would be well served to explore maltreatment as a precipitating factor associated with the development of a negative relationship with the body, and eventual NSSI engagement.
Patients often mentioned stress and mental tension as precipitating factors in both tension-type headache and migraine, while smoking and weather changes are mentioned more often as a precipitating factor in tension-type headache than in migraine [16].
For secondary prophylaxis, intolerance to indefinite lactulose therapy may lead to non-adherence and has been identified as a precipitating factor for recurrent OHE.
Although napping seems beneficial in the short term, such behaviour may disrupt the sleep-wake schedule over time and serve as a precipitating factor for the development of insomnia (Savard and Morin, 2001; Trudel-Fitzgerald et al, 2013), a sleep disorder that may continue to impact health function well after the patient has ended treatment (Zhou and Recklitis, 2014).
Instead of serving as a passive witness to events, you become the prosecutor that precipitates events.
When sleep is disrupted by a precipitating factor such as a life event or illness, their constitutional predisposition will bring them into a continuous hyper-aroused state: a perpetuating factor that prevents them from returning to normal sleep, as would be the case in people without the predisposition.
A precipitating factor such as drugs thyroid toxicity, thyroid hormone withdrawal or infection was found out in only 13 (32%) patients.
O'Hollaren, M. T. et al. Exposure to an aeroallergen as a possible precipitating factor in respiratory arrest in young patients with asthma.
What he doesn't mention as a possible precipitating factor in all of this is the suicide of his father, which occurred when Clark was 18 years old.
