2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Chronic Pain

Are you doing anything to cope with your chronic pain?*
(Using) A prescription narcotic pain reliever like Percocet or Vicodin?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 948 201 20.9 17.8-24.3 747 79.1 75.7-82.2
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 202 42 24.4 16.9-34.0 160 75.6 66.0-83.1
Region 3 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 106 18 18.5 11.5-28.5 88 81.5 71.5-88.5
Region 5 101 24 16.8 10.3-26.1 77 83.2 73.9-89.7
Region 6 93 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 7 93 15 15.1 8.4-25.7 78 84.9 74.3-91.6
Region 8 117 23 23.1 15.0-33.8 94 76.9 66.2-85.0
Region 9 & 10 151 32 18.2 12.1-26.6 119 81.8 73.4-87.9
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 365 80 22.4 17.4-28.4 285 77.6 71.6-82.6
Piedmont 353 75 18.8 14.6-23.9 278 81.2 76.1-85.4
Western NC 230 46 24.5 17.3-33.3 184 75.5 66.7-82.7
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 171 31 20.1 13.4-29.1 140 79.9 70.9-86.6
Northwest 146 38 27.3 19.6-36.6 108 72.7 63.4-80.4
Charlotte 80 12 16.2 8.8-28.0 68 83.8 72.0-91.2
Greensboro 92 22 17.6 10.6-27.7 70 82.4 72.3-89.4
Southern Regional 117 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southeast 57 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Wake 94 13 13.7 7.1-24.9 81 86.3 75.1-92.9
Area L & Eastern 191 44 20.6 14.6-28.2 147 79.4 71.8-85.4
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 202 42 24.4 16.9-34.0 160 75.6 66.0-83.1
Region 2 137 32 21.7 14.9-30.5 105 78.3 69.5-85.1
Region 3 110 19 18.2 11.3-28.0 91 81.8 72.0-88.7
Region 4 132 24 15.7 9.7-24.4 108 84.3 75.6-90.3
Region 5 183 42 26.2 18.8-35.2 141 73.8 64.8-81.2
Region 6 184 42 21.6 15.3-29.5 142 78.4 70.5-84.7

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*Asked of respondents that stated they were doing something to cope with their Chronic Pain.

See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

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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