Once the necessary statistical conditions were satisfied, we analyzed the variance for repeated measures (ANOVAs) to test the general behavioral effects of the treatment. We opted for procedures in line with a robust statistical approach for analysing subscales in finding differences in specific areas or functions: primarily, Mann–Whitney’s U between control and experimental groups for comparing scores on specific areas and functions. Effect size was estimated by Partial Square Eta, Partial Square Omega and Cohen’s ‘d’.