About the Authors

Yixuan Zou

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

yixuanzou723@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Albie Sharpe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Maddison Stratten

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation HIV & Related Programs Unit (HARP), Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Daniel Demant

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Public Health and Social Work, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District has ownership of the evaluated podcast and was engaged as a research partner, contributing contextual information about the evaluated podcast, supporting participant engagement and providing feedback on aspects of the study. All study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation were conducted independently by the research team. MS is employed by the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District. Her role was limited to providing contextual information throughout the research process and assisting with the write-up of the manuscript, but she was not involved in the interpretation of the data. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.