2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 3,143 800 26.1 24.2-27.9 2,343 73.9 72.1-75.8
Medicaid Region 1 406 116 29.7 24.6-35.4 290 70.3 64.6-75.4
GENDER
Male 204 67 35.5 27.9-43.8 137 64.5 56.2-72.1
Female 202 49 24.3 17.6-32.5 153 75.7 67.5-82.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 328 102 31.3 25.6-37.5 226 68.7 62.5-74.4
Non-Hispanic Black 32 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 46 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 120 32 28.9 20.4-39.1 88 71.1 60.9-79.6
45-64 138 45 34.1 25.1-44.4 93 65.9 55.6-74.9
65+ 142 38 26.6 18.2-37.2 104 73.4 62.8-81.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 135 36 33.5 24.5-43.8 99 66.5 56.2-75.5
Some Post-H.S. 122 26 21.7 13.9-32.2 96 78.3 67.8-86.1
College Graduate 149 54 34.9 27.1-43.7 95 65.1 56.3-72.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 180 59 35.3 27.2-44.2 121 64.7 55.8-72.8
$50,000+ 133 35 23.6 16.6-32.4 98 76.4 67.6-83.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 93 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 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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