摘要：Objective:Mental disorders of the elderly population in China deserve *** health is significantly associated with *** study aimed to evaluate the rate of depressive symptoms and to test the relationships between social health and depressive symptoms among a large sample of community-dwelling elderly ***:We conducted a cross-sectional study among community-dwelling adults aged 60 years or above in Zhejiang Province,***-to-face interviews were used to complete a structured questionnaire for all *** used the Social health Scale for the Elderly(SHSE)to evaluate social health status and used the short form of the Geriatric Depression Scale to evaluate depressive *** logistic regression was used to evaluate the asso?ciation between social health status and depressive ***:Of the total of 3757 participants included,1887(50.23%)were female,and the mean±standard deviation(SD)age was(70.0±8.3)*** rate of depressive symptoms was 25.92%.The social health score was higher in non?depressed participants than in depressed participants(raw score 50.7 vs.48.3,P<0.001).Participants with"moderate”or"good”social health had a significantly lower risk of depressive symptoms than those with“poor"social health(odds ratio(OR)=0.55,95%con fide nee interval(Cl):0.46-0.66 for moderate social health;OR=0.45,95%Cl:0.35-0.60 for good social health).The association between social health and depressive symptoms was con sistent across several *** clusi ons:Social health is signify cantly inversely associated with depressive *** SHSE may serve as an efficient screener to identify those elderly adults with social health deficits,but systematic assessment to guide intervention merits further investigation.