2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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?

View results for a demographic group:
 Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  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 3 881 548 60.6 56.7-64.4 68 7.7 6.0-10.0 121 14.1 11.6-17.0 90 11.7 9.2-14.7 54 5.9 4.4- 7.9
GENDER
Male 414 280 65.6 60.0-70.8 26 6.9 4.5-10.3 51 12.7 9.4-16.9 35 9.6 6.6-13.8 22 5.3 3.3- 8.3
Female 467 268 56.0 50.6-61.4 42 8.6 6.2-11.8 70 15.3 11.8-19.6 55 13.6 10.0-18.2 32 6.5 4.4- 9.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 496 301 59.6 54.4-64.5 45 9.4 6.8-12.7 72 14.5 11.3-18.5 48 11.1 8.2-15.0 30 5.4 3.6- 8.1
Non-Hispanic Black 179 112 61.9 53.0-70.0 11 5.1 2.6- 9.8 26 15.5 10.2-22.8 21 13.1 7.8-21.2 *** *** ***
Other 197 128 62.2 53.7-70.1 12 6.1 3.2-11.2 22 10.4 6.5-16.2 20 12.0 7.1-19.6 15 9.3 5.2-16.0
AGE
18-44 366 180 50.3 44.4-56.2 34 8.7 6.1-12.4 67 17.6 13.5-22.5 57 16.3 12.3-21.2 28 7.1 4.7-10.5
45-64 280 178 61.0 54.0-67.6 26 10.3 6.8-15.2 33 12.6 8.7-17.8 25 9.9 6.0-16.0 18 6.3 3.7-10.5
65+ 213 172 81.7 74.7-87.1 *** *** *** 20 9.1 5.5-14.6 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 253 176 67.1 59.8-73.6 *** *** *** 23 10.4 6.7-15.8 24 10.3 6.5-15.9 22 8.6 5.4-13.4
Some Post-H.S. 220 134 57.1 49.4-64.5 19 9.1 5.6-14.3 30 15.5 10.6-22.2 25 14.3 9.3-21.3 12 4.0 2.2- 7.4
College Graduate 402 234 57.1 51.6-62.5 41 10.8 7.8-14.8 67 16.4 12.8-20.7 40 10.9 7.6-15.2 20 4.8 3.0- 7.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 245 158 60.1 52.1-67.5 *** *** *** 33 15.6 10.5-22.5 26 14.3 9.3-21.5 20 7.3 4.4-11.7
$50,000+ 426 239 56.4 51.0-61.6 47 11.5 8.5-15.4 74 17.4 13.7-21.9 46 10.1 7.4-13.8 20 4.6 2.8- 7.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 200 143 69.6 61.1-76.9 13 6.0 3.3-10.9 14 6.2 3.4-11.0 17 12.2 7.1-20.3 13 6.0 3.3-10.5

Back to Healthy Days.

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 18SEP25.

SCHS Home | FAQs | Contacts