SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Onslow County

Asthma

During the past 30 days, how many days did you take a prescription asthma medication to prevent an asthma attack from occurring?*

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Less than once a week Once or twice a week > Twice a week not every day Everyday
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,183 240 21.5 18.4-25.0 36 3.4 2.1- 5.6 496 37.7 34.0-41.7 411 37.3 33.5-41.3
-Onslow County 25 3 14.1 4.4-36.8 2 5.7 1.2-22.9 12 46.2 26.3-67.4 8 34.0 16.2-57.8
GENDER
Male 5 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 4 85.9 40.3-98.2 1 14.1 1.8-59.7
Female 20 3 18.0 5.7-44.5 2 7.2 1.5-28.2 8 35.4 16.6-60.2 7 39.4 18.1-65.6
RACE
White 23 3 14.8 4.6-38.2 1 4.4 0.6-25.5 12 48.4 27.4-70.0 7 32.4 14.5-57.5
Other 1 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 1 100 . - .
AGE
18-44 13 2 15.2 3.5-46.9 1 6.6 0.9-35.6 6 42.3 18.2-70.7 4 35.9 12.9-67.9
45+ 11 1 12.8 1.8-53.8 0 0.0 . - . 6 55.2 26.0-81.3 4 32.0 11.4-63.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 11 1 15.1 2.2-58.5 0 0.0 . - . 6 51.1 22.7-78.8 4 33.8 12.5-64.6
Some College + 14 2 13.4 3.2-42.3 2 9.7 2.0-36.1 6 42.8 18.4-71.3 4 34.1 11.3-67.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 17 0 0.0 . - . 1 5.7 0.8-31.7 10 56.0 29.7-79.3 6 38.3 16.4-66.3
$50,000+ 6 3 60.1 22.7-88.5 0 0.0 . - . 1 14.4 1.9-59.4 2 25.6 5.8-65.9

Back to Asthma.

*These data apply only to those with current asthma

^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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16AUG06.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook