2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your mental health, which includes stress, depression, and problems with emotions,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your mental health not good?

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  Total
Respond.^
None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,859 3,211 64.4 62.6-66.1 337 7.1 6.2- 8.1 525 11.0 9.9-12.2 479 10.9 9.8-12.0 307 6.7 5.8- 7.7
Medicaid Region 5 1,173 771 61.1 57.5-64.6 65 5.9 4.3- 8.0 132 12.3 10.0-15.0 111 12.0 9.7-14.7 94 8.7 6.8-11.0
GENDER
Male 523 376 67.2 61.8-72.1 28 6.2 4.0- 9.5 47 10.4 7.5-14.4 31 8.0 5.4-11.8 41 8.1 5.5-11.8
Female 650 395 55.4 50.4-60.3 37 5.6 3.7- 8.6 85 14.0 10.9-17.9 80 15.7 12.3-19.9 53 9.2 6.8-12.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 649 426 61.2 56.6-65.7 40 6.0 4.2- 8.6 76 13.3 10.3-16.9 63 12.0 9.1-15.6 44 7.5 5.4-10.3
Non-Hispanic Black 266 169 61.6 53.9-68.7 13 5.9 2.9-11.7 25 7.9 4.8-12.7 31 15.7 10.7-22.5 28 9.0 5.9-13.5
Other 241 164 59.8 50.2-68.6 11 4.3 1.8- 9.9 28 14.6 8.9-23.1 17 8.3 4.5-14.6 21 13.0 7.1-22.6
AGE
18-44 373 199 51.7 45.8-57.6 25 7.1 4.5-10.9 57 15.1 11.3-19.9 56 16.5 12.5-21.3 36 9.6 6.5-14.0
45-64 353 221 60.5 54.0-66.5 22 5.8 3.4- 9.8 41 13.2 9.3-18.3 35 11.2 7.5-16.4 34 9.4 6.4-13.4
65+ 417 329 79.3 74.0-83.8 16 4.0 2.0- 7.6 30 4.9 3.1- 7.7 19 5.0 2.8- 8.8 23 6.8 4.2-10.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 427 295 63.6 57.5-69.2 17 5.3 2.9- 9.3 42 11.7 8.2-16.5 34 9.1 6.2-13.1 39 10.3 7.2-14.7
Some Post-H.S. 340 204 56.0 49.5-62.3 21 6.1 3.7-10.0 40 12.6 8.9-17.6 38 15.2 10.8-21.0 37 10.1 6.9-14.5
College Graduate 400 269 64.9 59.2-70.2 27 6.8 4.5-10.4 47 12.1 8.9-16.3 39 12.4 8.9-17.1 18 3.7 2.2- 6.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 460 274 53.5 47.7-59.2 32 6.7 4.4-10.2 55 14.1 10.3-18.9 49 14.3 10.6-19.1 50 11.4 8.1-15.8
$50,000+ 442 296 64.7 59.0-70.0 25 5.4 3.2- 9.0 52 10.9 7.9-14.8 44 12.3 8.7-17.0 25 6.7 4.2-10.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 268 200 67.5 59.7-74.5 *** *** *** 25 12.0 7.5-18.7 18 7.7 4.4-13.3 17 7.2 4.2-12.1

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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