BRFSS 2009 - Catawba County: (Please think about the past 30 days, keeping in mind all of your joint pain or aching and whether or not you have taken medication.<br> DURING THE PAST 30 DAYS, how bad was your joint pain ON AVERAGE?<br><br> (Please answer on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 i s no pain or aching and 10 is pain or aching as bad as it can be.))

2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Catawba County

Arthritis Burden

Please think about the past 30 days, keeping in mind all of your joint pain or aching and whether or not you have taken medication.
DURING THE PAST 30 DAYS, how bad was your joint pain ON AVERAGE?

(Please answer on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is no pain or aching and 10 is pain or aching as bad as it can be.)

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	Total Respond.^	No pain(0)			Mild pain(1-3)			Moderate pain(4-6)			Severe pain(7-9)			Extreme pain(10)
	Total Respond.^	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)
North Carolina	4,737	393	8.7	7.4-10.2	1,343	28.5	26.5-30.5	1,580	31.4	29.3-33.5	1,075	23.3	21.1-25.6	346	8.1	6.8- 9.7
-Catawba County	139	10	9.9	5.0-18.9	31	25.1	17.5-34.6	56	39.0	30.0-48.7	35	22.2	15.6-30.8	7	3.8	1.7- 8.2
GENDER
Male	44	3	9.1	2.6-27.1	15	37.6	23.1-54.7	19	40.8	25.7-57.8	6	11.7	5.1-24.8	1	0.9	0.1- 6.1
Female	95	7	10.5	4.6-22.4	16	16.1	9.6-25.6	37	37.6	27.6-48.8	29	29.9	20.5-41.3	6	5.9	2.5-13.2
RACE
White	131	9	8.6	4.2-17.0	30	26.3	18.3-36.2	54	39.1	30.1-48.9	32	22.3	15.4-31.2	6	3.6	1.5- 8.5
Other	8	1	21.6	3.1-70.0	1	14.4	1.9-58.9	2	37.4	9.9-76.6	3	21.5	5.4-56.8	1	5.1	0.6-31.0
AGE
18-44	12	1	9.3	1.3-44.9	3	26.4	8.3-58.5	3	30.1	9.6-63.6	4	28.4	9.4-60.3	1	5.8	0.8-32.7
45+	126	9	10.1	4.8-20.0	28	25.1	17.2-35.1	52	40.0	30.7-50.1	31	21.3	14.8-29.8	6	3.5	1.5- 7.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	81	4	6.4	2.2-17.1	16	22.0	12.9-35.1	29	37.5	25.7-51.0	27	30.0	20.3-42.0	5	4.1	1.6-10.1
Some College +	58	6	14.0	5.8-30.3	15	28.6	17.3-43.3	27	40.7	27.8-54.9	8	13.3	5.8-27.6	2	3.4	0.8-12.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	86	4	8.0	2.6-21.9	13	14.9	8.1-26.0	39	45.9	33.6-58.6	25	26.8	17.4-39.0	5	4.4	1.7-10.9
$50,000+	33	3	13.1	4.1-34.9	14	45.3	28.1-63.7	9	24.1	12.3-41.9	7	17.5	8.1-33.7	0	0.0	. - .

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^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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.

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