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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: New Hanover 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 16,999 12,167 71.3 70.3-72.2 1,214 8.0 7.4- 8.6 1,417 8.6 8.0- 9.2 1,197 6.9 6.4- 7.5 1,004 5.2 4.8- 5.7
-New Hanover County 442 297 65.9 60.2-71.1 45 10.8 7.9-14.8 46 10.5 7.6-14.5 32 8.5 5.5-12.8 22 4.3 2.7- 6.8
GENDER
Male 158 115 72.5 63.6-79.9 15 10.5 6.1-17.5 11 6.0 3.1-11.4 8 6.1 2.6-13.3 9 5.0 2.4- 9.8
Female 284 182 59.5 52.4-66.3 30 11.2 7.7-16.1 35 14.9 10.3-21.0 24 10.8 6.6-17.0 13 3.7 2.0- 6.5
RACE
White 373 250 65.2 59.0-70.9 39 10.8 7.7-14.9 39 10.3 7.3-14.5 26 9.0 5.6-14.2 19 4.6 2.8- 7.6
Other 69 47 68.9 54.0-80.6 6 11.1 4.3-25.9 7 11.3 4.7-25.0 6 5.9 2.4-14.0 3 2.7 0.8- 9.4
AGE
18-44 150 83 58.9 49.2-68.0 21 12.9 8.1-20.1 25 15.0 9.6-22.6 18 11.4 6.3-19.7 3 1.8 0.6- 5.5
45+ 290 213 72.2 65.9-77.7 24 9.0 5.9-13.7 21 6.6 4.2-10.2 14 5.9 3.3-10.4 18 6.3 3.7-10.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 144 98 66.9 56.3-76.0 9 7.2 3.3-15.0 10 6.2 3.0-12.5 17 14.5 8.0-24.8 10 5.2 2.5-10.4
Some College + 297 198 65.2 58.6-71.4 36 13.0 9.2-18.1 36 13.0 9.0-18.5 15 4.9 2.8- 8.5 12 3.8 2.0- 6.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 217 142 65.7 57.5-73.1 20 9.3 5.8-14.8 22 10.6 6.5-16.8 18 8.9 4.9-15.8 15 5.5 3.0- 9.7
$50,000+ 163 109 64.1 55.1-72.2 22 14.4 9.3-21.6 18 9.7 6.0-15.4 9 8.4 3.9-17.1 5 3.5 1.4- 8.6

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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: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
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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