Table 6.
Therapeutic effects: changes between the day of the project and the preceding day.
| Variable | Average Change Within the Group |
Therapeutic Effect | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Therapy | Control | Therapy-Control | ||
| Mental State and Concentration | ||||
| Feelings of happiness | 1.26 | −0.16 | 1.4 | 0.000 |
| Sad | −0.08 | −0.02 | −0.1 | 0.797 |
| Glad | 1.41 | −0.03 | 1.4 | 0.000 |
| Lonely | −0.10 | −0.52 | 0.4 | 0.158 |
| Brave | 2.04 | −0.40 | 2.5 | 0.000 |
| Relaxed | 0.90 | −0.05 | 1.0 | 0.030 |
| Annoyed | −0.15 | −0.26 | 0.1 | 0.713 |
| Concentrated | 2.14 | −0.10 | 2.2 | 0.000 |
| Attentive | 2.05 | −0.03 | 2.1 | 0.000 |
| Playful | −0.19 | −0.35 | 0.2 | 0.556 |
| Interested | 2.25 | −0.24 | 2.5 | 0.000 |
| Connected to other people | 2.21 | −0.27 | 2.5 | 0.000 |
| Communicative | 1.73 | −0.49 | 2.2 | 0.000 |
| Corporeal Memory | ||||
| Used to work with wood | 1.70 | 0.21 | 1.5 | 0.001 |
| Used to paint | 0.29 | 0.42 | −0.1 | 0.733 |
| Used to sing | 0.84 | −0.02 | 0.9 | 0.056 |
| Used to play board games | 1.75 | −0.77 | 2.5 | 0.000 |
| General remembering | 2.48 | −0.67 | 3.2 | 0.000 |
| Self-reliance | ||||
| Achieved something on his own | 2.15 | −0.38 | 2.5 | 0.000 |
| Felt connected with his work | 2.45 | −0.04 | 2.5 | 0.000 |
| Self-esteem | 2.64 | −0.07 | 2.7 | 0.000 |
| Physicality | ||||
| Happy facial expression | 1.95 | −0.25 | 2.2 | 0.000 |
| Upright posture | 2.04 | −0.18 | 2.2 | 0.000 |
| Influence of the weather | −0.46 | −0.20 | −0.26 | 0.050 |