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Descriptive analysis and Logistic regression were estimated. Random Forest, XGBoost, Support Vector Machine, Logistic Regression, Bagging, Decision Tree, Na\u00efve Bayes, Ridge Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, and K Nearest Neighbors are the ten Machine Learning algorithms that were used. Performance measures consisted of accuracy, Area Under Curve, precision, recall, F1 score, Hamming loss, Jaccard score, and Matthew\u2019s correlation coefficient. Random Forest and XGBoost were used to assess feature importance.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Depression was also more prevalent among younger adults, women, and individuals with poor self-rated health, stress, and sleep disturbances. Logistic regression revealed age and feeling low or sad as a factor (p\u2009=\u20090.008, p\u2009=\u20090.021). Most models demonstrated only moderate discriminative ability, with the AUC below 0.70, with better-performing models being Ridge regression (AUC\u2009=\u20090.716) and Random Forest (AUC\u2009=\u20090.713). Feature importance universally identified age, perception of health, quality of life, and depressive symptoms as important predictors.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Logistic regression provides interpretability, and Machine Learning increases predictive accuracy. 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