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2009 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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  Total
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 13,068 9,042 66.3 64.8-67.8 933 7.7 7.0- 8.6 1,216 10.8 9.8-12.0 1,096 9.6 8.7-10.5 781 5.5 4.9- 6.3
-New Hanover County 407 284 62.8 54.7-70.2 30 6.6 4.1-10.5 44 14.8 9.6-22.1 29 9.4 5.6-15.2 20 6.5 2.9-13.9
GENDER
Male 160 124 74.4 62.5-83.5 6 3.0 1.1- 8.5 13 9.7 4.4-20.0 9 6.8 3.1-14.1 8 6.1 1.9-18.2
Female 247 160 51.5 41.5-61.4 24 10.1 6.0-16.7 31 19.7 11.8-31.0 20 11.9 6.1-21.7 12 6.8 2.2-19.1
RACE
White 345 244 65.5 56.6-73.4 25 5.5 3.4- 8.9 37 13.1 8.2-20.3 23 9.6 5.4-16.5 16 6.3 2.4-15.5
Other 60 38 49.1 32.0-66.4 5 12.2 4.2-30.6 7 22.9 8.6-48.3 6 8.4 3.0-21.6 4 7.5 2.1-23.4
AGE
18-44 88 43 47.5 33.7-61.8 9 5.9 2.5-12.9 18 22.7 12.8-37.1 14 14.2 7.2-26.0 4 9.8 3.2-25.9
45+ 313 236 76.5 70.4-81.7 21 7.5 4.3-12.7 26 7.6 5.0-11.4 15 5.1 2.7- 9.3 15 3.3 1.9- 5.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 128 89 58.4 43.1-72.3 5 4.3 1.2-14.3 13 7.2 3.6-14.1 10 13.1 5.6-28.0 11 16.9 6.9-35.9
Some College + 279 195 64.8 55.5-73.2 25 7.8 4.7-12.6 31 18.4 11.3-28.5 19 7.6 4.1-13.4 9 1.4 0.7- 2.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 170 110 52.6 40.3-64.6 10 9.5 4.3-19.6 16 8.8 3.9-18.6 18 12.5 6.6-22.4 16 16.6 7.3-33.3
$50,000+ 176 129 72.7 62.8-80.8 16 6.7 3.9-11.1 22 13.3 8.4-20.4 6 6.5 2.0-19.2 3 0.8 0.2- 2.7

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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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