2012 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Healthy Days--By Risks, Conditions, and Quality of Life Measures

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%)
TOTAL 11,682 8,178 67.9 66.8-69.0 785 7.1 6.5- 7.8 1,005 9.4 8.7-10.1 938 9.1 8.4- 9.9 776 6.5 5.9- 7.1
GENDER
Male 4,572 3,421 72.5 70.8-74.1 257 6.2 5.3- 7.2 321 7.8 6.8- 8.8 304 7.7 6.7- 8.8 269 5.8 5.0- 6.8
Female 7,110 4,757 63.7 62.2-65.2 528 7.9 7.1- 8.8 684 10.8 9.9-11.9 634 10.5 9.5-11.5 507 7.1 6.3- 7.9
Have Health Insurance
Yes 9,757 7,017 70.0 68.8-71.2 653 7.0 6.4- 7.7 805 9.2 8.4-10.0 698 8.1 7.4- 8.9 584 5.7 5.1- 6.3
No 1,887 1,134 59.9 57.1-62.7 129 7.4 5.9- 9.3 197 10.1 8.6-11.9 236 12.9 11.1-14.9 191 9.6 8.2-11.3
Body Mass Index
Underweight 183 *** *** *** *** *** *** 16 9.6 5.4-16.6 20 17.0 9.2-29.2 *** *** ***
Recommended Range 3,481 2,479 68.6 66.5-70.7 250 8.2 7.0- 9.7 318 9.6 8.4-10.9 241 7.7 6.6- 8.9 193 5.9 4.9- 7.0
Overweight 3,955 2,836 69.4 67.4-71.3 268 6.8 5.9- 8.0 322 9.3 8.1-10.7 294 9.0 7.8-10.3 235 5.5 4.7- 6.4
Obese 3,311 2,173 64.7 62.5-66.8 214 6.6 5.6- 7.8 288 8.9 7.7-10.2 344 11.2 9.9-12.7 292 8.6 7.5- 9.9
Current Smoker
No 9,402 6,839 71.2 69.9-72.4 646 7.0 6.4- 7.7 780 9.2 8.5-10.1 647 7.7 7.0- 8.5 490 4.9 4.3- 5.4
Yes 2,119 1,223 55.5 52.7-58.2 128 7.5 5.9- 9.5 216 10.0 8.6-11.7 276 14.3 12.5-16.4 276 12.6 11.0-14.5
History of CVD**
Yes 1,408 932 63.6 60.2-66.8 70 5.6 4.1- 7.6 86 6.3 4.9- 8.2 140 10.2 8.3-12.5 180 14.2 12.1-16.7
No 10,181 7,197 68.6 67.4-69.8 711 7.3 6.6- 8.0 912 9.7 8.9-10.5 783 8.9 8.2- 9.7 578 5.6 5.1- 6.2
Binge Drinker
No 10,083 7,163 69.3 68.1-70.5 657 6.8 6.2- 7.5 827 8.9 8.2- 9.7 759 8.6 7.8- 9.3 677 6.4 5.8- 7.0
Yes 1,073 646 58.8 55.1-62.4 97 9.6 7.5-12.4 134 12.4 10.2-14.9 131 12.6 10.3-15.2 65 6.6 4.9- 8.9
Heavy Drinker
No 10,630 7,483 68.4 67.2-69.6 706 7.1 6.4- 7.8 900 9.3 8.5-10.0 837 8.9 8.2- 9.7 704 6.3 5.8- 7.0
Yes 506 315 59.2 53.8-64.5 47 10.5 7.5-14.5 62 12.7 9.6-16.6 49 10.0 7.2-13.8 33 7.6 5.1-11.2
COPD
Yes 1,003 552 51.7 47.6-55.8 45 5.2 3.6- 7.3 86 8.9 6.8-11.5 150 16.2 13.4-19.4 170 18.1 15.1-21.5
No 10,623 7,594 69.1 68.0-70.3 739 7.3 6.6- 8.0 913 9.4 8.7-10.2 778 8.6 7.9- 9.3 599 5.6 5.1- 6.2
Current Asthma
Yes 908 498 52.4 47.8-57.0 63 7.6 5.5-10.4 84 9.9 7.5-12.8 132 14.5 11.8-17.7 131 15.6 12.5-19.2
No 10,704 7,643 69.3 68.2-70.5 716 7.1 6.4- 7.8 912 9.2 8.5-10.0 798 8.7 8.0- 9.4 635 5.7 5.2- 6.3
Diabetes
Yes 1,530 1,022 63.8 60.5-66.9 73 4.9 3.7- 6.4 121 8.5 6.8-10.7 151 11.6 9.5-14.0 163 11.3 9.4-13.5
No 10,134 7,145 68.4 67.2-69.6 711 7.4 6.7- 8.1 884 9.5 8.7-10.3 784 8.8 8.1- 9.6 610 5.9 5.3- 6.5
Disability
Yes 3,086 1,724 51.1 48.8-53.5 166 5.6 4.6- 6.8 274 9.8 8.5-11.3 442 16.6 14.8-18.5 480 16.9 15.2-18.7
No 8,466 6,367 72.5 71.2-73.7 613 7.6 6.8- 8.4 721 9.3 8.5-10.1 480 7.1 6.3- 7.8 285 3.6 3.1- 4.2
Housing Stress***
Yes 1,460 601 40.8 37.6-44.0 87 5.6 4.3- 7.2 171 11.0 9.2-13.2 289 20.1 17.5-22.9 312 22.6 19.9-25.5
No 10,222 7,577 72.0 70.9-73.2 698 7.4 6.7- 8.1 834 9.1 8.4- 9.9 649 7.5 6.8- 8.2 464 4.0 3.6- 4.5

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**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

***Housing stress includes those who report always or usually worried about rent or mortgage payment.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2012 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2012 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^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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