2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Social Determinants and Health Equity

Stress means a situation in which a person feels tense, restless, nervous, or anxious, or is unable to sleep at night because their mind is troubled all the time.
Within the last 30 days, how often have you felt this kind of stress?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Always Usually Sometimes Rarely Never
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,188 215 7.2 6.0- 8.5 227 8.1 6.8- 9.7 746 23.9 21.8-26.1 759 22.8 20.8-24.9 1,241 38.1 35.7-40.5
Medicaid Region 1 404 30 9.0 5.8-13.9 30 6.7 4.3-10.4 81 19.9 14.8-26.2 112 27.0 20.0-35.5 151 37.3 30.2-45.1
GENDER
Male 171 12 7.1 3.4-14.1 *** *** *** 32 16.2 10.0-25.3 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Female 233 18 11.0 6.2-18.8 21 8.6 5.0-14.1 49 23.6 16.3-32.9 69 26.6 19.7-34.7 76 30.3 22.6-39.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 331 24 9.7 6.1-15.2 23 6.1 3.8- 9.8 62 18.9 13.6-25.7 100 29.3 21.5-38.6 122 35.9 28.3-44.3
Non-Hispanic Black 22 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 48 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 82 13 14.6 8.0-25.3 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 141 12 5.5 2.6-11.2 16 8.0 4.2-14.6 25 15.1 8.9-24.4 *** *** *** *** *** ***
65+ 173 *** *** *** *** *** *** 33 20.9 12.8-32.4 50 21.3 14.9-29.4 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 114 11 11.4 5.7-21.4 *** *** *** 22 19.5 11.6-30.9 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 130 14 11.5 5.9-21.2 13 8.4 4.2-16.1 *** *** *** 33 23.8 15.6-34.4 *** *** ***
College Graduate 158 *** *** *** *** *** *** 33 19.1 12.9-27.5 53 34.5 25.6-44.7 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 139 18 15.5 8.5-26.3 14 8.3 4.2-15.8 26 18.0 10.7-28.5 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 163 *** *** *** *** *** *** 31 18.0 11.1-27.7 52 34.8 25.6-45.2 64 38.4 29.0-48.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 102 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 23 19.7 11.6-31.6 *** *** ***

Back to Social Determinants and Health Equity.

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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 08APR25.

SCHS Home | FAQs | Contacts