Table 1.

A Summary of Themes by Adherence Level.

Constructions of Forgetting	Number of Participants by Adherence Level
	Very Low N = 5	Low N = 5	Moderate N = 4	High N = 4
Admitting nonadherence	1	0	1	1
Occasional lapse in automaticity	0	0	0	3
Temporary lapse in memory	0	0	2	4
Struggling to admit nonadherence	1	1	0	0
Strategies to normalize nonadherence:
Forgetting as humorous behavior	0	0	1	0
Using socially acceptable justifications for forgetting treatment (e.g., busyness, socializing, tiredness or apathy, and treatment-taking knowledge)	2	3	2	4
Forgetting as avoidance of cystic fibrosis	3	0	0	0
Forgetting as the binary opposite of adherence	0	2	0	0
Forgetting as routinizing nonadherence	3	0	0	0