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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County)

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your mental health, which includes stress, depression, and problems with emotions, for how many days during the past 30 days was your mental health not good?

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Respond.^
None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 14,755 10,857 74.7 73.8-75.5 918 6.0 5.6- 6.5 1,043 7.1 6.6- 7.7 920 6.1 5.6- 6.6 1,017 6.1 5.7- 6.6
-Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe County) 588 442 76.2 71.7-80.3 24 4.9 3.0- 7.9 47 7.5 5.2-10.7 27 5.0 3.2- 7.7 48 6.4 4.5- 9.1
GENDER
Male 209 176 82.3 74.7-87.9 7 5.0 2.2-11.0 11 6.0 2.8-12.1 6 3.6 1.5- 8.3 9 3.1 1.3- 7.2
Female 379 266 71.0 65.0-76.3 17 4.8 2.7- 8.5 36 8.8 5.9-12.9 21 6.2 3.7-10.2 39 9.3 6.3-13.5
RACE
White 494 372 76.6 71.8-80.7 19 4.7 2.7- 7.9 40 6.9 4.8-10.0 24 5.1 3.2- 8.1 39 6.7 4.6- 9.6
Other 91 67 72.8 54.8-85.5 5 6.9 1.9-22.4 7 11.9 3.7-32.6 3 4.1 0.9-16.2 9 4.3 1.1-15.2
AGE
18-44 197 126 64.0 55.3-72.0 11 6.8 3.4-13.3 29 15.3 9.8-22.9 14 7.6 4.2-13.3 17 6.3 3.3-11.6
45+ 386 311 83.3 78.3-87.3 13 3.8 1.9- 7.5 18 2.8 1.6- 5.0 13 3.5 1.8- 6.8 31 6.6 4.2-10.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 276 202 74.8 67.8-80.8 8 2.6 1.1- 6.1 24 9.0 5.2-15.0 14 4.9 2.6- 9.1 28 8.7 5.4-13.5
Some College + 308 238 77.8 71.5-83.0 15 6.9 3.9-12.1 23 6.2 3.8-10.1 13 5.1 2.7- 9.4 19 4.0 2.2- 7.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 338 248 75.0 68.7-80.4 13 3.7 1.8- 7.6 29 8.4 5.1-13.5 17 4.9 2.7- 8.7 31 8.0 5.1-12.2
$50,000+ 122 91 75.3 65.5-83.1 8 7.3 3.4-14.9 13 9.0 4.7-16.5 5 5.5 2.1-13.2 5 2.9 1.0- 8.2

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^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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