en Medical Education Medical Education Original Research Original Research &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Background: </strong>Individuals&rsquo; listening styles differs based on their characters, professions and situations. This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of Listening Styles Profile- Revised (LSP- R) in Iranian students.<br> &nbsp; <strong>Methods</strong>: After translating into Persian, LSP-R was employed in a sample of 240 medical and nursing Persian speaking students in Iran. Statistical analysis was performed to test the reliability and validity of the LSP-R.<br> <strong>&nbsp; Results</strong>: The study revealed high internal consistency and good test-retest reliability for the Persian version of the questionnaire. The Cronbach&rsquo;s alpha coefficient was 0.72 and intra-class correlation coefficient 0.87. The means for the content validity index and the content validity ratio (CVR) were 0.90 and 0.83, respectively. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) yielded a four-factor solution accounted for 60.8% of the observed variance. Majority of medical students (73%) as well as majority of nursing students (70%) stated that their listening styles were task-oriented.<br> &nbsp; <strong>Conclusion</strong>: In general, the study finding suggests that the Persian version of LSP-R is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing listening styles profile in the studied sample. &nbsp;&nbsp; Validity, Reliability, Listening Style Profile, Persian, Iran 419 423 http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1062-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Zahra Fatehi zahrafatehi2007@yahoo.com 200319475328460034085 200319475328460034085 No Education Development Office, Medical school. Rafsanjan University of Medical Sci-ences, Rafsanjan, Iran Hamid Reza Baradaran baradaran.hr@iums.ac.ir 200319475328460034086 200319475328460034086 Yes Center for Educational Research in Medical Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sci-ences, Tehran, Iran Mohamad Asadpour ASADPOOR1@YAHOO.COM 200319475328460034087 200319475328460034087 No Department of Health Services and Health Promotion, School of Health, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran Mohsen Rezaeian MOEYQMR2@YAHOO.COM 200319475328460034088 200319475328460034088 No Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Occupational Environmental Research Center, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran