Participants
depression, Media, NOTV
We recruited 79 subjects between 20 and 30 years of age (All subjects were informed about the procedure of the trial in written form as well as personally and gave their written consent according to the Declaration of Helsinki II. The trial was approved by the ethics committee of the medical faculty of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany (Registration number: 2018-1060-BO). All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.Media consumption habits and demographical data were collected at the initial assessment. In TV the daily television consumption was increased by 62.5% through our intervention (from 180 min per day on average to 480 min per day). In NOTV the daily television consumption was decreased by 100% (from 167 min per day on average to 0 min per day). Subjects were screened for symptoms of depression by All subjects were randomized either into the intervention (TV, age: 