2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

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 2 388 102 27.4 22.2-33.2 286 72.6 66.8-77.8
GENDER
Male 186 57 31.5 23.9-40.3 129 68.5 59.7-76.1
Female 202 45 23.9 17.4-31.9 157 76.1 68.1-82.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 290 85 32.6 26.2-39.8 205 67.4 60.2-73.8
Non-Hispanic Black 55 12 16.2 8.6-28.5 43 83.8 71.5-91.4
Other 43 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 110 25 24.5 16.7-34.6 85 75.5 65.4-83.3
45-64 153 42 30.0 21.9-39.7 111 70.0 60.3-78.1
65+ 121 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 127 35 31.5 22.5-42.3 92 68.5 57.7-77.5
Some Post-H.S. 133 31 21.6 14.7-30.6 102 78.4 69.4-85.3
College Graduate 128 36 29.8 20.8-40.6 92 70.2 59.4-79.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 168 54 34.8 26.8-43.8 114 65.2 56.2-73.2
$50,000+ 137 31 21.6 14.3-31.3 106 78.4 68.7-85.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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