2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 944 526 53.9 49.8-57.9 85 8.5 6.6-11.0 164 18.7 15.6-22.2 117 14.0 11.3-17.4 52 4.8 3.6- 6.6
GENDER
Male 434 270 60.9 54.9-66.6 40 9.3 6.4-13.4 65 16.8 12.6-22.1 39 9.4 6.6-13.2 20 3.6 2.2- 5.9
Female 510 256 47.4 41.9-52.9 45 7.8 5.5-10.9 99 20.5 16.3-25.4 78 18.4 14.0-23.8 32 6.0 4.1- 8.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 562 305 52.8 47.6-57.8 51 8.8 6.4-12.0 110 21.0 17.0-25.5 64 12.4 9.4-16.1 32 5.1 3.4- 7.5
Non-Hispanic Black 183 100 53.8 44.4-62.9 19 9.2 5.1-16.0 32 17.6 11.7-25.7 23 14.4 8.5-23.3 *** *** ***
Other 185 114 59.3 49.1-68.8 12 4.9 2.6- 9.2 22 15.4 8.6-26.0 26 15.9 9.4-25.4 11 4.5 2.3- 8.8
AGE
18-44 373 151 40.8 34.8-47.1 46 10.4 7.5-14.2 88 24.1 18.9-30.1 65 20.6 15.6-26.6 23 4.2 2.6- 6.6
45-64 305 175 59.0 52.0-65.6 25 8.6 5.2-14.0 52 16.3 11.8-22.0 35 10.5 7.1-15.2 18 5.6 3.4- 9.3
65+ 255 191 75.2 67.9-81.4 14 4.5 2.4- 8.4 23 10.3 6.3-16.3 16 4.5 2.3- 8.6 11 5.4 2.7-10.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 232 149 62.4 54.2-70.0 15 7.1 3.8-12.9 22 9.0 5.3-14.7 36 18.1 12.3-25.8 *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 208 108 46.3 38.1-54.7 16 6.7 4.0-11.2 38 24.2 17.0-33.2 29 15.2 10.0-22.4 17 7.6 4.6-12.4
College Graduate 499 265 51.4 46.3-56.5 54 11.1 8.3-14.7 103 23.2 19.0-28.0 52 10.1 7.4-13.5 25 4.2 2.7- 6.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 240 121 44.3 36.6-52.3 21 10.0 6.0-16.2 39 20.4 13.6-29.4 36 16.6 11.4-23.5 23 8.7 5.6-13.4
$50,000+ 522 278 54.2 48.7-59.6 51 8.5 6.1-11.8 107 20.2 16.3-24.7 64 13.8 10.1-18.5 22 3.3 2.0- 5.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 173 122 66.1 56.8-74.4 13 7.3 3.8-13.5 17 12.9 7.8-20.7 14 9.0 4.9-15.9 *** *** ***

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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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