2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Chronic Pain

Are you doing anything to cope with your chronic pain?*
(Using) Some other prescription drug?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 952 344 37.0 33.0-41.2 608 63.0 58.8-67.0
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 204 69 33.0 24.3-42.9 135 67.0 57.1-75.7
Region 3 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 106 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 5 103 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 6 93 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 7 95 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 8 116 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 9 & 10 150 45 29.4 21.1-39.2 105 70.6 60.8-78.9
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 361 128 34.2 28.4-40.5 233 65.8 59.5-71.6
Piedmont 359 136 39.5 33.4-45.9 223 60.5 54.1-66.6
Western NC 232 80 33.9 26.0-42.9 152 66.1 57.1-74.0
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 173 61 34.1 24.9-44.6 112 65.9 55.4-75.1
Northwest 146 50 32.7 24.6-42.0 96 67.3 58.0-75.4
Charlotte 80 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Greensboro 94 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southern Regional 116 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southeast 57 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Wake 96 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Area L & Eastern 190 62 31.8 24.1-40.7 128 68.2 59.3-75.9
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 204 69 33.0 24.3-42.9 135 67.0 57.1-75.7
Region 2 139 53 38.7 29.6-48.7 86 61.3 51.3-70.4
Region 3 110 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 134 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 5 182 74 39.4 31.2-48.2 108 60.6 51.8-68.8
Region 6 183 58 30.1 22.8-38.7 125 69.9 61.3-77.2

Back to Chronic Pain.

*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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