2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

For these next questions, please think about injuries you have had during your entire lifetime, especially those that affected your head or neck.
It might help to remember times you went to the hospital or emergency room.
Think about injuries you may have received from a car or motorcycle wreck, bicycle crash, being hit by something, falling down, being hit by someone, playing sports or an injury during military service.
Thinking about any injuries you have had in your lifetime, were you ever knocked out or did you lose consciousness?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,569 911 24.8 23.1-26.6 2,658 75.2 73.4-76.9
Medicaid Region 6 675 160 25.9 21.6-30.8 515 74.1 69.2-78.4
GENDER
Male 301 94 31.9 25.1-39.7 207 68.1 60.3-74.9
Female 374 66 20.6 15.5-26.8 308 79.4 73.2-84.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 421 127 33.6 27.9-39.7 294 66.4 60.3-72.1
Non-Hispanic Black 190 27 15.8 8.7-27.0 163 84.2 73.0-91.3
Other 64 *** *** *** 58 92.9 83.1-97.2
AGE
18-44 180 48 30.6 22.6-40.0 132 69.4 60.0-77.4
45-64 250 62 25.4 18.9-33.3 188 74.6 66.7-81.1
65+ 236 47 18.9 13.5-25.8 189 81.1 74.2-86.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 262 59 21.3 15.8-28.0 203 78.7 72.0-84.2
Some Post-H.S. 212 61 32.4 24.4-41.6 151 67.6 58.4-75.6
College Graduate 200 39 21.1 14.8-29.3 161 78.9 70.7-85.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 329 85 26.6 21.0-33.1 244 73.4 66.9-79.0
$50,000+ 214 54 29.4 21.3-39.1 160 70.6 60.9-78.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 132 21 18.4 10.8-29.5 111 81.6 70.5-89.2

Back to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

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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