2024 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 4,266 2,614 59.9 58.1-61.7 335 7.8 6.9- 8.8 551 13.2 12.0-14.5 477 12.1 10.9-13.3 289 7.0 6.1- 8.0
Medicaid Region 5 575 361 59.8 55.0-64.4 39 7.1 5.1- 9.9 69 11.7 8.9-15.3 71 15.5 12.1-19.6 35 5.9 4.0- 8.6
GENDER
Male 275 178 60.9 54.1-67.4 21 8.4 5.4-13.0 31 11.2 7.4-16.6 33 14.9 10.4-20.7 12 4.6 2.3- 8.7
Female 300 183 58.7 51.9-65.2 18 5.9 3.5- 9.7 38 12.2 8.4-17.4 38 16.0 11.3-22.3 23 7.2 4.5-11.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 362 224 59.4 53.4-65.1 27 7.9 5.3-11.8 44 12.4 8.8-17.2 45 14.8 10.9-19.7 22 5.5 3.4- 8.6
Non-Hispanic Black 101 *** *** *** *** *** *** 13 12.6 6.9-22.0 13 15.0 8.1-25.9 *** *** ***
Other 103 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 220 115 49.7 42.2-57.2 17 7.6 4.6-12.3 37 16.9 11.8-23.7 37 19.8 14.3-26.9 14 6.0 3.3-10.4
45-64 182 109 58.2 49.7-66.2 16 9.3 5.5-15.3 18 8.2 4.9-13.3 27 17.1 11.2-25.1 12 7.3 3.6-13.9
65+ 168 133 78.8 70.1-85.5 *** *** *** 13 6.2 3.0-12.3 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 206 143 65.3 57.3-72.6 13 7.1 4.0-12.3 19 10.3 6.2-16.6 22 12.6 8.0-19.4 *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 160 99 56.7 47.7-65.3 *** *** *** 17 10.8 6.2-18.3 25 20.3 13.7-29.1 *** *** ***
College Graduate 207 118 54.7 46.9-62.2 17 8.7 5.2-14.2 33 15.5 10.6-22.2 23 13.1 8.6-19.6 16 7.9 4.7-13.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 179 105 51.0 42.4-59.6 11 7.2 3.8-13.3 21 12.2 7.3-19.7 26 19.8 13.2-28.7 16 9.7 5.5-16.5
$50,000+ 265 161 59.7 52.8-66.2 24 9.1 5.9-13.7 34 12.9 8.7-18.7 31 13.9 9.7-19.6 15 4.5 2.6- 7.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 125 90 70.8 59.9-79.7 *** *** *** 14 9.2 5.0-16.2 13 13.0 6.9-23.3 *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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