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Child health

• Cross-sectional study: Parental–adolescent conversations that focus on weight are more likely to be associated with unhealthy weight-control behaviours in adolescents than conversations that focus on healthy eating (14 February, 2014)

  Julie C Lumeng
• Mixed methods: Parents of non-verbal children with learning disability (LD) most commonly recognise their child’s pain through vocalisations, social behaviour and facial expressions (11 February, 2014)

  Lynn M Breau
• Cohort study: Overweight or obese young people are not at increased risk of depression, but young people with depression are at increased risk of obesity (14 February, 2014)

  Angela L Wilson, Gary S Goldfield
• Mixed methods: Although parents are generally satisfied with their child's postoperative care, children continue to experience moderate-to-severe pain postoperatively (18 February, 2014)

  Elizabeth Manias
• Cohort study: Child-spanking at age 5 may have a detrimental effect on child externalising behaviour and cognitive development at age 9 (11 March, 2014)

  Brian B Boutwell
• Quantitative study—other: Infrared thermometers for assessing fever in children: the ThermoScan PRO 4000 ear thermometer is more reliable than the Temporal Scanner TAT-500 (30 January, 2014)

  A Sahib El-Radhi