2022 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

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%)
TOTAL 4,422 2,772 61.4 59.4-63.3 306 7.0 6.0- 8.0 524 11.9 10.7-13.2 546 12.9 11.6-14.4 274 6.9 5.8- 8.2
GENDER
Male 2,084 1,439 69.2 66.6-71.6 134 6.4 5.2- 7.9 192 9.5 8.0-11.3 219 10.0 8.6-11.7 100 4.9 3.9- 6.1
Female 2,338 1,333 54.2 51.3-57.0 172 7.5 6.2- 9.0 332 14.1 12.4-16.0 327 15.6 13.4-18.0 174 8.7 6.9-11.0
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,922 2,458 61.4 59.3-63.4 271 7.0 6.1- 8.2 484 12.4 11.1-13.7 481 12.9 11.5-14.5 228 6.3 5.3- 7.5
No 416 265 63.4 57.2-69.2 29 7.1 4.6-10.8 29 6.7 4.4-10.1 53 13.7 9.9-18.6 40 9.1 6.1-13.4
Body Mass Index
Underweight 64 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,142 686 58.0 54.0-61.8 90 7.7 5.9-10.1 155 13.6 11.3-16.2 140 13.7 11.1-16.9 71 7.0 5.1- 9.4
Overweight 1,425 921 63.5 60.2-66.6 99 7.4 5.8- 9.4 168 11.7 9.8-13.9 164 12.2 10.1-14.6 73 5.3 4.0- 7.0
Obese 1,331 816 60.2 56.4-63.8 85 6.6 5.1- 8.5 136 10.5 8.5-12.9 194 13.6 11.4-16.3 100 9.1 6.5-12.6
Current Smoker
Yes 548 280 45.1 39.2-51.1 35 8.0 5.2-12.2 61 10.5 7.6-14.3 97 22.1 16.6-28.8 75 14.2 10.6-18.7
No 3,664 2,342 63.3 61.2-65.3 257 6.9 5.9- 7.9 445 12.3 11.0-13.7 430 11.7 10.4-13.0 190 5.8 4.7- 7.3
History of CVD**
Yes 465 287 60.6 53.7-67.2 29 7.8 4.8-12.5 39 8.2 5.5-12.0 61 14.2 9.5-20.5 49 9.2 6.2-13.7
No 3,920 2,463 61.6 59.6-63.7 276 6.9 6.0- 8.0 480 12.2 11.0-13.6 479 12.6 11.2-14.0 222 6.6 5.5- 8.0
Binge Drinker
Yes 632 308 48.2 43.5-53.0 57 7.9 5.8-10.6 112 19.1 15.4-23.4 98 15.8 12.5-19.8 57 9.0 6.6-12.0
No 3,387 2,194 63.1 60.8-65.4 228 7.1 6.0- 8.3 378 11.0 9.7-12.4 400 12.4 10.9-14.1 187 6.5 5.1- 8.1
Heavy Drinker
Yes 259 129 43.8 36.4-51.3 22 6.9 4.0-11.5 36 16.9 11.4-24.4 41 17.7 12.2-25.0 31 14.7 10.0-21.1
No 3,769 2,378 61.7 59.6-63.8 263 7.2 6.2- 8.4 454 12.0 10.7-13.4 457 12.7 11.2-14.3 217 6.5 5.3- 7.9
COPD
Yes 340 180 48.6 40.5-56.7 *** *** *** 39 10.8 7.2-15.9 54 19.9 13.1-28.9 47 14.3 9.4-21.1
No 4,069 2,587 62.4 60.4-64.4 286 7.0 6.1- 8.1 483 12.0 10.8-13.3 490 12.4 11.1-13.8 223 6.2 5.1- 7.5
Current Asthma
Yes 397 170 36.7 30.6-43.2 35 9.3 6.1-13.7 62 19.6 14.5-25.8 82 22.3 16.3-29.7 48 12.2 8.2-17.9
No 4,003 2,590 64.0 62.0-66.0 271 6.8 5.9- 7.9 459 11.1 10.0-12.4 460 11.7 10.5-13.1 223 6.3 5.2- 7.7
Diabetes
Yes 576 377 66.1 60.6-71.3 23 3.9 2.2- 6.8 47 7.2 5.0-10.2 74 12.6 9.6-16.5 55 10.1 6.8-14.9
No 3,834 2,388 60.9 58.8-63.0 282 7.4 6.4- 8.6 476 12.6 11.3-14.0 472 13.0 11.6-14.7 216 6.0 5.1- 7.2
Functional Disability
Yes 1,348 703 49.8 46.0-53.7 59 4.9 3.6- 6.8 150 10.1 8.2-12.3 271 21.1 18.0-24.7 165 14.0 11.1-17.5
No 2,922 1,969 66.5 64.2-68.6 237 8.0 6.8- 9.3 354 12.9 11.4-14.5 260 9.2 8.0-10.5 102 3.5 2.8- 4.5
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,296 705 52.5 48.6-56.3 87 7.3 5.6- 9.4 147 11.5 9.4-14.0 211 17.4 14.3-20.9 146 11.4 9.1-14.0
No 3,125 2,066 64.7 62.4-66.9 219 6.8 5.8- 8.1 377 12.1 10.7-13.6 335 11.2 9.9-12.8 128 5.2 4.0- 6.7

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**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

†Chronic diseases include heart disease (heart attack/stoke/angina), current asthma, skin cancer, other cancer, COPD, arthritis, depression, kidney disease and diabetes.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2022 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2022 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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