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2007 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Anxiety & Depression

Over the last 2 weeks, how many days have you moved or spoken so slowly that other people
could have noticed? Or the opposite - being so fidgety or restless that you were moving around
a lot more than usual?

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  Total
Respond.^
None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-13 days 14 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 6,693 6,032 88.6 87.4-89.8 243 4.5 3.7- 5.4 236 4.1 3.4- 5.0 39 0.7 0.5- 1.2 143 2.0 1.6- 2.5
COUNTY/REGIONS
Alamance 152 141 92.4 86.2-96.0 9 5.4 2.7-10.6 0 0.0 . - . 0 0.0 . - . 2 2.2 0.5- 8.3
Buncombe 158 144 90.9 82.9-95.4 4 2.1 0.8- 5.7 6 5.1 1.7-14.0 3 1.1 0.3- 4.0 1 0.8 0.1- 5.4
Cabarrus 165 147 88.1 79.4-93.4 8 5.5 2.3-12.6 6 4.8 1.7-12.5 1 0.4 0.1- 2.6 3 1.3 0.3- 4.5
Catawba 186 166 89.1 79.4-94.5 4 1.7 0.6- 4.6 7 2.7 1.1- 6.1 2 3.6 0.6-19.7 7 3.0 1.3- 6.7
Cumberland 160 134 79.0 66.8-87.5 13 14.0 6.5-27.6 9 4.7 2.2- 9.6 0 0.0 . - . 4 2.3 0.7- 7.1
Davidson 168 153 87.3 74.5-94.2 2 5.5 1.1-22.9 5 2.0 0.7- 5.5 2 1.1 0.2- 5.1 6 4.2 1.3-12.6
Durham 156 146 94.7 88.5-97.6 5 1.7 0.6- 4.5 1 0.4 0.1- 2.7 1 0.5 0.1- 3.3 3 2.8 0.7-10.2
Forsyth 171 148 82.8 72.6-89.8 11 8.7 3.9-18.6 5 2.6 1.0- 6.4 1 0.5 0.1- 3.3 6 5.3 1.9-14.0
Gaston 173 147 81.7 71.2-89.0 7 6.0 2.0-16.6 10 7.4 3.2-16.1 4 2.8 0.8- 9.0 5 2.2 0.8- 5.6
Guilford 170 154 86.3 76.2-92.6 7 4.2 1.7- 9.9 7 8.8 3.7-19.7 0 0.0 . - . 2 0.6 0.1- 2.9
Iredell 182 170 91.0 81.1-96.0 4 2.6 0.7- 9.4 5 4.9 1.3-16.2 0 0.0 . - . 3 1.5 0.5- 4.9
Johnston 197 177 90.0 82.9-94.4 13 7.5 3.7-14.4 4 1.5 0.4- 5.3 0 0.0 . - . 3 1.0 0.3- 3.1
Mecklenburg 323 296 91.8 87.2-94.8 7 1.9 0.8- 4.1 10 3.7 1.7- 8.1 4 0.6 0.2- 1.7 6 2.0 0.8- 5.0
New Hanover 182 168 89.2 79.2-94.7 5 4.2 1.2-13.5 6 3.9 1.4-10.4 0 0.0 . - . 3 2.8 0.7-10.7
Onslow 176 162 93.4 87.4-96.6 5 2.7 0.9- 7.8 3 1.3 0.3- 5.2 0 0.0 . - . 6 2.6 0.9- 7.4
Orange 169 163 96.5 90.0-98.8 3 2.6 0.6-10.1 2 0.7 0.2- 2.7 0 0.0 . - . 1 0.2 0.0- 1.5
Pitt 164 139 80.4 70.7-87.5 8 7.7 3.2-17.2 8 5.7 2.8-11.1 2 1.0 0.2- 4.1 7 5.2 1.9-13.5
Randolph 177 162 91.6 84.8-95.6 2 2.9 0.6-12.1 8 3.9 1.9- 7.9 0 0.0 . - . 5 1.6 0.6- 4.1
Robeson 181 155 89.6 84.3-93.3 8 2.4 1.1- 5.1 11 4.1 2.1- 7.8 1 0.6 0.1- 4.3 6 3.3 1.4- 7.5
Rowan 199 180 88.8 81.1-93.6 6 3.8 1.6- 8.8 6 4.4 1.4-12.5 2 0.6 0.1- 2.5 5 2.5 0.9- 6.5
Union 174 159 89.7 81.3-94.6 6 4.6 2.0-10.5 6 5.1 1.7-13.8 0 0.0 . - . 3 0.6 0.2- 2.0
Wake 284 272 96.7 94.0-98.2 8 2.2 1.0- 4.7 2 0.7 0.2- 3.0 0 0.0 . - . 2 0.3 0.1- 1.3
Wayne 166 146 82.3 67.5-91.2 5 6.0 1.2-24.4 9 9.0 3.4-21.8 0 0.0 . - . 6 2.7 1.1- 6.7
NC REGIONS
Eastern NC 2,160 1,922 87.4 85.0-89.4 96 6.2 4.7- 8.1 90 4.1 3.1- 5.4 7 0.6 0.2- 2.0 45 1.7 1.2- 2.5
Piedmont 3,253 2,956 89.2 87.4-90.8 99 3.8 2.8- 5.0 100 4.0 3.0- 5.3 22 0.7 0.4- 1.2 76 2.3 1.7- 3.1
Western NC 1,280 1,154 88.8 86.1-91.0 48 4.0 2.8- 5.8 46 4.8 3.3- 6.9 10 1.1 0.5- 2.7 22 1.2 0.8- 2.0
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CTRS. (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 797 722 89.8 86.5-92.3 27 3.3 2.1- 5.2 24 4.5 2.6- 7.4 8 1.0 0.5- 2.2 16 1.5 0.8- 2.5
Northwest 1,445 1,290 84.4 80.6-87.6 51 5.4 3.5- 8.2 56 5.8 3.8- 8.9 11 1.3 0.6- 2.8 37 3.1 1.9- 5.0
Charlotte 945 844 88.6 85.6-91.1 31 3.3 2.1- 5.2 36 4.6 2.9- 7.0 11 1.1 0.5- 2.2 23 2.4 1.4- 4.0
Greensboro 783 726 88.6 83.7-92.2 24 5.0 2.7- 9.1 19 4.3 2.1- 8.3 0 0.0 . - . 14 2.1 1.0- 4.3
Southern Regional 595 519 86.0 80.7-90.0 29 7.0 3.9-12.2 32 4.2 2.6- 6.8 3 1.0 0.3- 4.0 12 1.8 0.8- 3.6
Coastal 330 308 92.0 86.5-95.4 7 2.5 0.8- 7.1 12 4.1 2.0- 8.1 0 0.0 . - . 3 1.4 0.3- 5.6
Wake 717 664 94.6 92.5-96.2 27 2.6 1.6- 4.1 14 1.8 0.9- 3.4 1 0.1 0.0- 0.5 11 0.9 0.5- 1.9
Area L 162 139 81.5 72.1-88.2 9 10.3 5.2-19.3 10 4.8 2.3- 9.7 1 0.5 0.1- 3.2 3 2.9 0.8-10.1
Eastern 919 820 87.6 83.7-90.6 38 5.6 3.6- 8.5 33 3.9 2.4- 6.3 4 1.2 0.2- 5.2 24 1.7 1.0- 2.9

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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.

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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