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Public Health"],"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study aims to examine the association between home-based community care services (HBCCS) and mental health in older adults and specifically analyzes rural\u2013urban differences in the association.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>This cross-sectional study enrolled 852 older adults from Zhejiang Province, China. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7), University of California Los Angeles 3-item Loneliness Scale (UCLA-3), and the Mental Health (MH) component score of the 36-item Short Form (SF-36) were used to measure self-reported mental health status. Four categories of community care services were examined: daily, medical, social and recreational, and spiritual comfort. Satisfaction with community care services was assessed using self-reported measures. We used a multiple linear regression model.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Satisfaction with daily care services, social and recreational services, and spiritual comfort services in rural older adults was significantly higher than in urban older adults (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.016, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001, respectively). Rural older adults reported lower scores on the PHQ-9, GAD-7, and UCLA-3 than urban older adults (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.003, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.001, respectively) and had significantly higher scores on the SF-36 MH than urban older adults (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001). Among urban older adults, medical care services satisfaction was negatively related to the PHQ-9 and UCLA-3 scores (<jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009\u22120.296, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.004; <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009\u22120.447, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.009, respectively). A lower UCLA-3 score was associated with higher levels of satisfaction with social and recreational services and with spiritual comfort services (<jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009\u22120.426, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.010; <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009\u22120.523, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.002, respectively). A higher level of spiritual comfort services satisfaction was associated with a lower SF-36 MH score (<jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.646, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001). Among rural older adults, medical care services satisfaction was negatively related to the GAD-7 score (<jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009\u22120.327, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.028).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Home-based community care services satisfaction was positively associated with older adults\u2019 mental health status in Zhejiang Province. 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