Picky Eaters Improved Diet Quality in a Randomized Behavioral Intervention Trial in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes.

Background: Children who are picky eaters typically demonstrate persistent food refusal and poor diet quality and may be resistant to intervention.

Objective: This study tested whether pickiness moderated the effect of a nutrition intervention on diet quality in youth with type 1 diabetes, hypothesizing that the intervention effect would be smaller among picky relative to nonpicky eaters.

Design: The study was an 18-month randomized clinical trial.