2023 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 4,020 2,431 57.6 55.4-59.8 314 8.7 7.4-10.2 519 14.1 12.5-15.8 501 13.3 11.9-14.8 255 6.3 5.4- 7.4
Medicaid Region 5 959 615 56.9 51.6-62.1 42 5.6 3.1- 9.8 104 12.1 8.8-16.5 122 15.5 12.4-19.3 76 9.9 7.1-13.6
GENDER
Male 403 281 61.9 53.1-70.0 11 5.0 1.6-14.4 37 11.3 6.3-19.5 44 12.0 8.2-17.1 30 9.9 5.9-16.1
Female 556 334 52.2 45.8-58.6 31 6.2 3.5-10.8 67 12.8 9.1-17.9 78 18.9 14.3-24.6 46 9.8 6.4-14.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 403 247 58.2 51.8-64.3 19 5.1 2.7- 9.2 49 12.6 9.0-17.5 53 14.2 10.3-19.1 35 9.9 6.6-14.6
Non-Hispanic Black 161 *** *** *** *** *** *** 14 8.3 4.3-15.5 24 18.8 11.7-28.8 14 11.8 5.3-24.3
Other 381 *** *** *** 17 3.8 1.1-11.7 *** *** *** 41 14.0 8.2-23.0 26 8.3 4.1-16.4
AGE
18-44 314 156 44.3 36.5-52.5 15 6.7 2.7-15.8 49 16.8 10.7-25.4 64 22.8 17.2-29.7 30 9.3 6.0-14.2
45-64 342 218 59.7 50.8-67.9 17 4.4 2.2- 8.4 40 12.4 7.7-19.3 35 10.5 6.3-17.1 32 13.0 7.8-21.1
65+ 290 232 76.3 65.5-84.5 *** *** *** 14 3.7 1.8- 7.5 23 9.4 5.6-15.2 13 7.6 2.7-19.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 310 211 58.1 48.1-67.4 17 9.9 4.4-20.7 21 6.9 3.2-14.2 42 16.2 11.1-23.2 19 8.9 4.4-17.2
Some Post-H.S. 298 180 53.1 44.3-61.7 *** *** *** 35 16.3 9.5-26.6 44 16.2 11.0-23.3 29 11.9 7.4-18.6
College Graduate 348 221 59.7 52.5-66.6 15 3.5 1.8- 6.6 48 14.4 10.0-20.2 36 13.8 9.2-20.2 28 8.6 5.6-13.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 353 217 55.9 46.8-64.7 14 4.1 1.8- 9.2 32 6.0 3.0-11.5 53 17.5 12.2-24.5 37 16.5 10.3-25.4
$50,000+ 392 252 58.3 51.3-65.0 16 3.4 1.8- 6.5 55 16.0 11.5-21.8 44 15.5 10.8-21.8 25 6.7 3.9-11.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 206 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 24 12.7 7.4-20.8 14 5.7 2.8-11.4

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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