Table 3.

Examples of important life events where psychosocial support is crucial in people with cystic fibrosis.

Childhood years	Adolescent years	Adult years
Starting kindergarten/day care/pre-school	Starting secondary school	Starting higher education
Starting school	Being a teenager with CF	Starting to work
First awareness of being different	First relationship	Starting a long-term relationship
Eating problems	First sexual experience	Parenthood
Sleeping problems	Death of a CF friend	Death of a CF friend
Behavioural problems (e.g. non-adherence)	Behavioural problems (e.g. non-adherence)	Behavioural problems (e.g. non-adherence)
Examples of key medical stages
CF diagnosis	Diagnosis of infertility
First Pseudomonas infection	Treatment of infertility
First episode of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis	Awareness of deteriorating disease
Gastrostomy placement	Transition to the adult clinic
Diagnosis CF-related diabetes	Transition to transplantation
First haemoptysis and other complications	Transition to end-of-life care
Supplementary oxygen dependence	Transplantation

CF, cystic fibrosis.