2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 482 118 22.7 18.7-27.3 364 77.3 72.7-81.3
GENDER
Male 217 34 16.1 11.2-22.5 183 83.9 77.5-88.8
Female 265 84 29.2 23.3-35.9 181 70.8 64.1-76.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 317 84 25.0 19.9-30.8 233 75.0 69.2-80.1
Non-Hispanic Black 102 25 22.8 15.0-32.9 77 77.2 67.1-85.0
Other 60 *** *** *** 51 87.7 76.0-94.1
AGE
18-44 171 48 25.6 19.1-33.3 123 74.4 66.7-80.9
45-64 159 45 26.1 19.1-34.6 114 73.9 65.4-80.9
65+ 147 23 13.5 8.5-20.9 124 86.5 79.1-91.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 164 33 19.4 13.7-26.8 131 80.6 73.2-86.3
Some Post-H.S. 137 36 24.6 17.4-33.5 101 75.4 66.5-82.6
College Graduate 178 48 24.4 17.8-32.3 130 75.6 67.7-82.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 149 45 28.9 21.1-38.1 104 71.1 61.9-78.9
$50,000+ 207 53 24.7 18.6-32.0 154 75.3 68.0-81.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 119 20 13.5 8.2-21.4 99 86.5 78.6-91.8

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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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