en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Introduction:</strong> Since nutritional status has a great impact on physical and mental health, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between nutritional status and depression in elderly referring to urban health centers of Esfarayn, North Khorasan province, Iran) in 2017<span dir="RTL">.</span><br> <strong>Methods:</strong> This cross-sectional study was performed on 250 elderly referring to Esfarayen health centers<span dir="RTL">.</span> Data collecting tool was a standard questionnaire for investigating nutritional and depression status in the elderly. Data were analyzed using ANOVA, t-test, chi-square and correlation coefficient by SPSS18 software.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> According to the results, 8.4% of elderly were malnourished and 30% were exposed to malnutrition<span dir="RTL">.</span> There was an inverse correlation between age, number of children and nutritional status, and there was a significant relationship between living alone, underlying diseases, body mass index and nutritional status (p < 0.05). Forthy four percent of the elderly had severe depression and 40% had mild depression. Significant relationship was found between variables such as age, gender, education, economic status, living alone, underlying diseases and depression (p < 0.05). There was a significant correlation between depression and nutritional status in the elderly (p <0.001, r = -0.615).<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: Depression is prevalent among elderly, and their nutritional status is in moderate level<span dir="RTL">.</span> Regarding the correlation between these two variables, periodical psychiatric examinations, psychological interventions with the aim of treating depression as well as educational measures to improve the nutrition statues of the elderly is necessary.</div> Nutritional Status, Depression, Aged 24 30 http://ehj.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-169-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ahmad Sadeghi No Department of Public Health, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Sciences, Esfarayen, Iran Hasan Jafari No Health Policy and Management Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Hossein Rouhani hoseinrohani3@gmail.com 0000-0002-2589-099X Yes Student Research committee, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Sciences, Esfarayen, Iran Fereshteh Eidy No Student Research committee, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Sciences, Esfarayen, Iran Akram Zhiani Fard No Department of Public Health, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Sciences, Esfarayen, Iran Najmeh Davoodi No Student Research committee, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Sciences, Esfarayen, Iran