Frontiers in Public Health

Sun Weidi, Ren Ziyang, Zhu Siyu, Cheng Siqing, Liu Wen, Li Ho Cheung William, Xia Wei, Yuan Changzheng, Adeloye Davies, Rudan Igor, Canoy Dexter, Song Peige, on behalf of the Global Health Epidemiology Research Group (GHERG)

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with higher depressive risks in adulthood. Whether respondents’ ACEs are associated with their own depressive symptoms in adulthood and whether this association extends to their spouses’ depressive symptoms remain unexplored.