Table 2: Bivariate associations with Mental Health among BRFSS respondents in United States (2017-2018)
Good Mental Health
(N=28594)
Moderate Mental Health
(N=7904)
Bad Mental Health
(N=5614)
P-value

Chi-squre tests for categorical variables, ANOVA for continuous variables

Age Group
18-64 8021 (28.1%) 3711 (47.0%) 3318 (59.1%) <0.001
>65 20573 (71.9%) 4193 (53.0%) 2296 (40.9%)
Gender
Male 11931 (41.7%) 2200 (27.8%) 1497 (26.7%) <0.001
Female 16663 (58.3%) 5704 (72.2%) 4117 (73.3%)
Race
White 24700 (86.4%) 6639 (84.0%) 4433 (79.0%) <0.001
Black 1648 (5.8%) 520 (6.6%) 395 (7.0%)
American Indian/Alaskan Native 377 (1.3%) 142 (1.8%) 177 (3.2%)
Asian 274 (1.0%) 65 (0.8%) 31 (0.6%)
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 31 (0.1%) 17 (0.2%) 13 (0.2%)
Other Race 133 (0.5%) 34 (0.4%) 35 (0.6%)
Multiracial 467 (1.6%) 156 (2.0%) 169 (3.0%)
Hispanic 964 (3.4%) 331 (4.2%) 361 (6.4%)
Marital Status
Married 15656 (54.8%) 3866 (48.9%) 2102 (37.4%) <0.001
Divorced 3918 (13.7%) 1385 (17.5%) 1370 (24.4%)
Widowed 6495 (22.7%) 1530 (19.4%) 1051 (18.7%)
Separated 344 (1.2%) 203 (2.6%) 284 (5.1%)
Never married 1832 (6.4%) 747 (9.5%) 647 (11.5%)
A member of an unmarried couple 349 (1.2%) 173 (2.2%) 160 (2.9%)
Eduction
Never attended school or only kindergarten 25 (0.1%) 4 (0.1%) 4 (0.1%) <0.001
Elementary 488 (1.7%) 146 (1.8%) 207 (3.7%)
Some high school 1202 (4.2%) 373 (4.7%) 499 (8.9%)
High school graduate 7722 (27.0%) 2004 (25.4%) 1772 (31.6%)
Some college or technical school 7824 (27.4%) 2288 (28.9%) 1766 (31.5%)
College graduate 11333 (39.6%) 3089 (39.1%) 1366 (24.3%)
Number of Cancers
Only 1 cancer 2321 (8.1%) 653 (8.3%) 394 (7.0%) 0.395
Having 2 cancers 740 (2.6%) 212 (2.7%) 113 (2.0%)
3 or more 146 (0.5%) 42 (0.5%) 34 (0.6%)
Missing 25387 (88.8%) 6997 (88.5%) 5073 (90.4%)
Age told had cancer
Mean (SD) 56.9 (14.5) 51.6 (16.2) 47.7 (17.2) <0.001
Median [Min, Max] 59.0 [1.00, 94.0] 54.0 [2.00, 92.0] 50.0 [3.00, 86.0]
Missing 25464 (89.1%) 7012 (88.7%) 5083 (90.5%)
Having physical pain or not
Phyiscal pain 170 (0.6%) 89 (1.1%) 73 (1.3%) <0.001
Don't have physical pain 1957 (6.8%) 487 (6.2%) 244 (4.3%)
Missing 26467 (92.6%) 7328 (92.7%) 5297 (94.4%)