The Big Picture: Patient Drawings of Gout and Their Relationship to Illness Perceptions and Stigma.

Patients' drawings of their illnesses have been used as a unique way of assessing illness perceptions in a wide range of diseases, including cardiac, respiratory, endocrine, and neurological conditions. 1,2 Patient drawings can reveal beliefs about the extent and effect of their illness that are hard to capture and interpret using standard questionnaires.