2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

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
Region 8 690 469 60.3 54.1-66.1 30 5.8 2.7-11.9 65 10.1 7.1-14.2 82 15.7 11.9-20.4 44 8.2 5.3-12.3
GENDER
Male 289 209 59.8 50.2-68.7 *** *** *** 26 11.3 6.8-18.3 30 13.9 9.0-20.9 14 7.0 3.7-12.7
Female 401 260 60.7 52.8-68.2 20 3.5 1.8- 6.6 39 9.0 5.6-14.1 52 17.4 12.2-24.3 30 9.4 5.2-16.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 288 186 60.3 53.0-67.2 14 4.2 2.1- 8.2 28 11.3 7.3-16.9 39 16.0 11.3-22.2 21 8.3 4.9-13.7
Non-Hispanic Black 83 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 11 13.2 6.3-25.6 *** *** ***
Other 312 *** *** *** 13 5.2 1.3-18.1 30 8.1 3.5-17.7 30 14.2 7.3-25.8 19 8.7 3.5-20.3
AGE
18-44 209 113 47.0 37.6-56.6 *** *** *** 30 12.8 7.7-20.6 42 23.7 16.6-32.6 14 7.5 3.9-13.9
45-64 253 167 60.7 50.1-70.3 13 4.8 2.2-10.1 25 11.3 6.6-18.9 26 9.4 5.4-15.9 22 13.8 7.3-24.6
65+ 220 182 82.6 74.0-88.8 *** *** *** *** *** *** 14 9.2 4.8-17.0 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 243 *** *** *** *** *** *** 16 6.7 3.2-13.3 30 15.0 9.5-22.9 13 8.9 4.2-17.9
Some Post-H.S. 208 128 57.0 46.6-66.9 *** *** *** 23 13.4 7.8-22.1 30 18.7 11.7-28.7 19 8.9 4.8-16.2
College Graduate 236 168 67.6 58.2-75.8 *** *** *** 26 11.4 6.3-19.7 22 12.8 7.9-20.3 12 6.0 2.9-12.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 262 *** *** *** *** *** *** 27 10.7 5.5-19.7 36 18.4 11.9-27.5 24 14.4 8.1-24.3
$50,000+ 268 186 62.8 53.7-71.0 13 4.3 1.7-10.6 26 11.1 6.7-17.9 28 15.8 10.2-23.7 15 6.0 2.9-11.8
Don't know/Not Sure 153 *** *** *** *** *** *** 12 8.5 4.2-16.5 18 12.8 6.8-22.7 *** *** ***

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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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