Secondly, colouring would seem preferable to music or other conditions, such as aromatherapy,
because it promotes constructive/adaptive behaviour.
Such a behaviour might increase the therapeutic value of the intervention and provide the patient a more acceptable social image with a potentially beneficial impact on the attitude of caregivers and staff [25–28].
In this study, the aforementioned advantages coincided with the patient’s preference
for the colouring condition.
Thus, the long-term application of such a condition was motivated by both personal and environmental/social reasons [12, 27, 28].