Table 2.

Characteristics of participants whose Q‐sorts exemplified each factor

	Adults with CF	Parents of children with CF
Factor 1	A woman in her late thirties and a man in his early forties. Both described themselves as being in good health.	One mother with two children with CF. One father with a child with CF and a previous child with CF who had died. Five mothers who had one child with CF and at least one other child without CF
Factor 2		Four mothers, each with one child with CF and one child without CF
Factor 3	A woman in her early twenties who had undergone a lung transplant	A mother of a baby with CF and an older child without CF
Factor 4	Three men and one woman with CF in their twenties
Factor 5	A woman with CF in her mid thirties	A mother of a 10 year old child with CF and two other children without CF.