Table 3.
Mean levels of checking food, drink and medicine labels by age group.
| Adult (18 or Over) with PKU or Parent/Carer of Adult with PKU (Mean), n = 114 |
Parent or Carer of Child with PKU (Mean), n = 92 |
Total (Mean), n = 206 |
Mann Whitney Test p Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food | 4.07 | 4.58 | 4.30 | p < 0.001 |
| Drinks | 4.50 | 4.75 | 4.61 | p < 0.001 |
| Medicines | 3.86 | 4.74 | 4.25 | p < 0.001 |
Abbreviations: PKU, Phenylketonuria; n: number of respondents. The mean values relate to a scale of 1 to 5 (1 = Not at all; 2 = Rarely; 3 = Sometimes; 4 = Most of the time; 5 = Always).