Over the last 30 years, the position of children in society has changed with a growing recognition of their rights and the need to involve them in decisions relating to their education, social care and health care. In recent times, as more importance is given to the rights and views of the child, there has been a pragmatic shift from “research on children” to “research with children” and the adoption of the concept of child-centred research. Marshman Z summarized child-centred research as follows: view children as competent and thoughtful in reporting their experiences, give children a voice, take what they say seriously and rather than research children, work for and with them1. Most research conducted on children involves quantitative techniques such as questionnaires and scales that limit children from freedom of self-expression. As a result, children often experience difficulties understanding, interpreting written content and verbal language. In contrast, qualitative participatory methods such as drawings, timelines, vignettes and narratives encourage children to freely express their emotions, feelings and ideas. Therefore, through self-participation methods, children's needs could be better understood, the quality of care can be refocused and further improved. In the past, few authors have assessed children's anxiety, fear, and behavior using drawings and narratives.1, 2-4 Pond, in 1968, found stories about pain, blood, and other signs of aggression in a series of drawings by children collected by a dentist.5 In a study conducted by Taylor et al. school children were asked to draw a dentist at work.6 Some other studies using drawings assessed children's response, anxiety… middle of paper… – S7.11. Klingberg G, Hwang CP. Children's Dental Fear Picture Test (CDFP): a projective test for assessing children's dental fear. ASDC J Dent Child 1994; 61(2): 89-96.12. Klingberg G, Lofqvist LV, Hwang CP. Validity of the Children's Dental Fear Image Test (CDFP). Eur J Sci Oral 1995; 103(1): 55-60.13. Clatworthy S, Simon K, Tiedeman M. Child Drawing: Hospital: an instrument designed to measure the emotional state of school-aged children admitted to hospital. J Pediatr Nurs 1999; 14:2-8.14. Clatworthy S, Simon K, Tiedeman M. Children's drawing: hospital manual. J Pediatr Nurs 1999; 2.10pm-6.15pm. Yang Z, Sun X, Hardin JW. Testing marginal homogeneity in clustered matched pair data. Plane inference J Stat 2011; 141: 1313-1318.16. Cherney ID, Seiwert CS, Dickey TM, Flichtbeil JD. Children's drawings: a mirror to their minds. Educational psychology 2006; 26(1): 127-142