Table 1: Characteristics of BRFSS respondents in United States, overall and stratified by Mental Health(2017-2018)(n=426,155)
Good Mental Health
(N=288251)
Moderate Mental Health
(N=90139)
Bad Mental Health
(N=47765)
Overall
(N=426155)

Missing means Not cancer patient

Age Group
18-64 171505 (59.5%) 68542 (76.0%) 36925 (77.3%) 276972 (65.0%)
>65 116746 (40.5%) 21597 (24.0%) 10840 (22.7%) 149183 (35.0%)
Gender
Male 137390 (47.7%) 33541 (37.2%) 17389 (36.4%) 188320 (44.2%)
Female 150861 (52.3%) 56598 (62.8%) 30376 (63.6%) 237835 (55.8%)
Race
White 222245 (77.1%) 69244 (76.8%) 34964 (73.2%) 326453 (76.6%)
Black 22662 (7.9%) 7199 (8.0%) 4270 (8.9%) 34131 (8.0%)
American Indian/Alaskan Native 4985 (1.7%) 1705 (1.9%) 1309 (2.7%) 7999 (1.9%)
Asian 6904 (2.4%) 1957 (2.2%) 601 (1.3%) 9462 (2.2%)
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 980 (0.3%) 310 (0.3%) 196 (0.4%) 1486 (0.3%)
Other Race 1437 (0.5%) 391 (0.4%) 291 (0.6%) 2119 (0.5%)
Multiracial 5058 (1.8%) 2169 (2.4%) 1611 (3.4%) 8838 (2.1%)
Hispanic 23980 (8.3%) 7164 (7.9%) 4523 (9.5%) 35667 (8.4%)
Marital Status
Married 162192 (56.3%) 43255 (48.0%) 17729 (37.1%) 223176 (52.4%)
Divorced 36550 (12.7%) 12316 (13.7%) 9568 (20.0%) 58434 (13.7%)
Widowed 37446 (13.0%) 8372 (9.3%) 5383 (11.3%) 51201 (12.0%)
Separated 4557 (1.6%) 2147 (2.4%) 2168 (4.5%) 8872 (2.1%)
Never married 39748 (13.8%) 19968 (22.2%) 10770 (22.5%) 70486 (16.5%)
A member of an unmarried couple 7758 (2.7%) 4081 (4.5%) 2147 (4.5%) 13986 (3.3%)
Eduction
Never attended school or only kindergarten 409 (0.1%) 72 (0.1%) 76 (0.2%) 557 (0.1%)
Elementary 6558 (2.3%) 1438 (1.6%) 1518 (3.2%) 9514 (2.2%)
Some high school 12408 (4.3%) 3821 (4.2%) 3928 (8.2%) 20157 (4.7%)
High school graduate 79276 (27.5%) 21837 (24.2%) 15406 (32.3%) 116519 (27.3%)
Some college or technical school 77475 (26.9%) 26096 (29.0%) 15087 (31.6%) 118658 (27.8%)
College graduate 112125 (38.9%) 36875 (40.9%) 11750 (24.6%) 160750 (37.7%)
Having cancer or not
Cancer Patient 28594 (9.9%) 7904 (8.8%) 5614 (11.8%) 42112 (9.9%)
Not cancer patient 259657 (90.1%) 82235 (91.2%) 42151 (88.2%) 384043 (90.1%)
Number of Cancers
Only 1 cancer 4380 (1.5%) 1130 (1.3%) 609 (1.3%) 6119 (1.4%)
Having 2 cancers 928 (0.3%) 269 (0.3%) 134 (0.3%) 1331 (0.3%)
3 or more 181 (0.1%) 51 (0.1%) 37 (0.1%) 269 (0.1%)
Missing 282762 (98.1%) 88689 (98.4%) 46985 (98.4%) 418436 (98.2%)
Age told had cancer (years)
Mean (SD) 57.8 (14.6) 52.4 (15.7) 49.5 (17.1) 55.9 (15.4)
Median [Min, Max] 60.0 [1.00, 94.0] 55.0 [1.00, 92.0] 52.0 [3.00, 90.0] 58.0 [1.00, 94.0]
Missing 282936 (98.2%) 88717 (98.4%) 47009 (98.4%) 418662 (98.2%)
Days of bad mental health is last 30 days
Mean (SD) 0 (0) 4.26 (2.95) 24.0 (6.64) 3.59 (7.89)
Median [Min, Max] 0 [0, 0] 3.00 [1.00, 13.0] 29.0 [14.0, 30.0] 0 [0, 30.0]