probably due to two factors: the non-randomized selection of subjects and the specific treatments that each participant was receiving at the specialized care center. The statistical subject–factor interaction was corrected through a transformation by a power of Exp = .32. Normality was verified for each level of the groups’ marginal estimated means on the global score output of the ECAR, and a violation of sphericity was found in the experimental group through Mauchly’s test (x2= 75.811, df = 27,p< .05). Accordingly, the difference between factor levels was tested through
Greenhouse–Geisser’s test, finding significant differences in the evolution over time withF(2.23,15.67) = 67.43; p< .001. We also found by the Bonferroni adjustment that statistically significant differences were mostly present every two consecutive measures