2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you have a depressive disorder, including depression, major depression,
dysthymia, or minor depression?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,309 970 22.5 21.0-24.0 3,339 77.5 76.0-79.0
Medicaid Region 5 582 131 26.3 22.1-31.0 451 73.7 69.0-77.9
GENDER
Male 276 55 23.6 18.1-30.1 221 76.4 69.9-81.9
Female 306 76 28.9 22.9-35.6 230 71.1 64.4-77.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 366 81 24.8 19.9-30.4 285 75.2 69.6-80.1
Non-Hispanic Black 102 29 28.2 19.5-39.0 73 71.8 61.0-80.5
Other 105 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 222 60 30.7 24.0-38.2 162 69.3 61.8-76.0
45-64 186 54 32.9 25.1-41.8 132 67.1 58.2-74.9
65+ 169 17 11.8 6.9-19.4 152 88.2 80.6-93.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 208 37 21.9 15.7-29.7 171 78.1 70.3-84.3
Some Post-H.S. 164 45 32.2 24.2-41.3 119 67.8 58.7-75.8
College Graduate 208 49 26.9 20.5-34.5 159 73.1 65.5-79.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 182 40 26.5 19.3-35.4 142 73.5 64.6-80.7
$50,000+ 267 67 28.8 22.7-35.8 200 71.2 64.2-77.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 127 23 21.3 13.6-31.8 104 78.7 68.2-86.4

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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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