precontact

alternative pre-contact

1. not comparableBefore contact was established (especially with an indigenous people).

   the precontact period

plural precontacts · alternative pre-contact

1. countableuncountableAn instance of contacting somebody in advance.

   Precontacts may be less effective with homogeneous groups than with samples involving the general population.

   1979, Arthur V. Ciervo, Using the Mass Media (issues 5-8, page 63)

   1 more example

   Reviewing 12 studies of precontacting or advance notice to respondents, Linsky (1975) concluded that all precontacts by letter, postcard, telephone, or earlier personal contact increased response rates, with the telephone precontact being the most effective.

   2015, H. J. Hsia, Mass Communications Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Approach, page 169

present singular third person precontacts · participle present precontacting · participle past precontacted · past precontacted · alternative pre-contact

1. To contact somebody in advance.

   Reviewing 12 studies of precontacting or advance notice to respondents, Linsky (1975) concluded that all precontacts by letter, postcard, telephone, or earlier personal contact increased response rates, with the telephone precontact being the most effective.

   2015, H. J. Hsia, Mass Communications Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Approach, page 169