2017 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

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 4,844 3,311 65.9 64.1-67.7 359 7.9 6.9- 9.0 436 10.3 9.1-11.5 409 8.8 7.8- 9.9 329 7.2 6.2- 8.3
Region 8 706 492 67.4 62.8-71.6 48 7.2 5.1-10.0 46 6.9 4.8- 9.7 63 10.0 7.6-13.1 57 8.6 6.2-11.7
GENDER
Male 310 228 69.8 63.1-75.7 13 5.7 2.9-10.8 22 7.7 4.8-12.0 25 9.5 6.2-14.4 22 7.4 4.5-11.8
Female 396 264 64.9 58.6-70.8 35 8.6 5.9-12.4 24 6.1 3.5-10.4 38 10.5 7.3-15.0 35 9.8 6.4-14.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 401 280 66.4 60.6-71.7 27 7.7 5.0-11.8 28 7.7 5.0-11.6 37 10.0 7.0-14.0 29 8.2 5.4-12.3
Non-Hispanic Black 134 92 69.6 58.9-78.6 11 6.3 3.0-12.7 *** *** *** *** *** *** 13 10.7 5.5-19.9
Other 171 120 68.9 58.8-77.5 *** *** *** *** *** *** 16 11.0 6.1-18.9 15 7.6 3.7-14.8
AGE
18-44 229 140 60.5 53.0-67.6 17 7.9 4.5-13.4 26 11.6 7.6-17.2 31 13.0 8.9-18.6 15 7.0 4.0-12.1
45-64 251 171 71.1 63.8-77.5 19 6.0 3.5- 9.9 13 3.6 1.8- 7.3 20 7.6 4.5-12.7 28 11.7 7.4-18.0
65+ 223 178 76.6 68.5-83.2 12 7.4 3.9-13.3 *** *** *** 12 7.0 3.6-13.3 14 7.5 3.9-14.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 299 203 65.8 58.5-72.4 19 6.7 3.8-11.8 21 7.2 4.2-12.0 27 9.9 6.4-15.0 29 10.4 6.7-16.0
Some College + 406 288 68.7 62.8-74.0 29 7.5 4.9-11.3 25 6.7 4.1-10.5 36 10.2 7.1-14.4 28 7.0 4.5-10.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 368 251 67.7 61.3-73.5 26 8.4 5.2-13.3 19 4.1 2.3- 7.3 37 9.7 6.7-13.9 35 10.0 6.6-14.7
$50,000+ 203 146 67.7 59.4-75.0 16 7.1 4.1-12.2 18 9.4 5.5-15.6 14 10.9 6.4-18.0 *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 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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