2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

Chronic Pain

Do you suffer from any type of chronic pain, that is pain that occurs constantly or flares up often?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,615 1,180 30.7 28.8-32.6 2,435 69.3 67.4-71.2
Medicaid Region 5 649 235 32.8 28.6-37.3 414 67.2 62.7-71.4
GENDER
Male 289 97 29.5 23.7-36.1 192 70.5 63.9-76.3
Female 360 138 35.6 29.8-41.9 222 64.4 58.1-70.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 392 141 33.7 28.4-39.4 251 66.3 60.6-71.6
Non-Hispanic Black 134 46 29.7 21.3-39.8 88 70.3 60.2-78.7
Other 123 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 204 51 23.3 17.5-30.3 153 76.7 69.7-82.5
45-64 234 96 38.8 31.2-47.0 138 61.2 53.0-68.8
65+ 203 87 42.1 34.1-50.6 116 57.9 49.4-65.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 250 102 37.1 29.9-44.9 148 62.9 55.1-70.1
Some Post-H.S. 204 80 34.2 27.0-42.2 124 65.8 57.8-73.0
College Graduate 194 53 22.9 17.3-29.6 141 77.1 70.4-82.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 345 153 43.3 37.0-49.7 192 56.7 50.3-63.0
$50,000+ 197 49 20.0 14.6-26.8 148 80.0 73.2-85.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 107 33 26.2 17.2-37.8 74 73.8 62.2-82.8

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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