2.2. Participants
diabetes, psychiatric, Diabetes
DIABETES, SECONDARY, DIABETES
The FLEX study recruited participants from two clinical sites: the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Colorado and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serving as a coordinating center from 5 January 2014 to 4 April 2016. Eligible criteria for the study included being between the ages of 13 and 16 years of age at study entry with a hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) of 8–13% and diabetes duration of greater than one year. Youth who were pregnant or had severe concurrent physical, developmental, or psychiatric medical conditions were excluded from participating in the study. For the secondary analyses reported in this study, participants were included if they had reported a bout of MVPA at baseline or 6 months post-baseline visit and had sufficient dietary and glycemia data on the same day as the reported physical activity. Baseline demographic, clinical, glycemia, dietary, and physical characteristics among participants included in our analyses (