Background: Stress of conscience is prevalent among health and social care staff and associated with factors such as burnout, intent to leave, reduced job satisfaction and quality of care. One approach proposed to potentially reduce stress of conscience is person-centred care (PCC), but there are few studies with large sample sizes and persons of various health and social care occupational groups. Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the association of perceived PCC with stress of conscience among health and social care professionals in hospital and municipal care settings. Methods: This newly published cross-sectional study is based on a web survey sent to 11,554 hospital and municipal care staff in western Sweden, yielding 1671 responses (1). To measure the exposure variable, the Person-Centred Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT) was used, including its subscales ‘Extent of Personalising Care’ and ‘Organisational and Environmental Support’. The Stress of Conscience Questionnaire was used to measure the outcome variable. Bivariate correlations were calculated, and multivariate linear regression analyses were executed. Results: Health and social care staff who reported lower levels of stress of conscience also reported significantly higher levels in the total P-CAT score (B = −1.16), and the Extent of Personalising Care subscale (B = −0.8). The strongest association with stress of conscience was identified in the Organisational and Environmental Support subscale (B = −3.14). Conclusions: The results indicate that organisational and work environmental factors could be of importance for lower stress of conscience. Supportive efforts in factors such as staffing, funding, and training from senior management and first-line managers, and conducive psychosocial work environments could be enablers for applying PCC and reducing stress of conscience. However, longitudinal research is needed to better determine the causal relationship.   References Gustavsson K, et al. (2025). BMC Health Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-13077-x