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A predictive model was constructed to assess the risk of depressive symptoms, and the feature importance honeycomb plot was utilized to illustrate the relationships between variables and prediction outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study found multiple risk factors significantly associated with depression, including gender, place of residence, number of surgeries in the past year, hospitalization in the past 2\u202fyears, social isolation, level of education, comorbidity, age, malignant disease, oral frailty, stigma associated with illness, and family health. The XG Boost model demonstrated optimal predictive performance, achieving an AUC value of 0.931. 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