recontact
- noun
- /ˌriːˈkɒntækt/
- After several years, I decided it was time for a recontact with my old friend to catch up.
- recontact efforts
Examples
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No limit was set on the number of recontact attempts for each telephone number.
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Privacy and confidentiality regulations are intended to prevent potentially sensitive information from being disclosed and to guide research procedures for recontact.
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It's a recontact list of all our assets here, including those who identify and paint targets for us in the tribal areas.
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Balancing privacy rights and recontact efforts.
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In 2001, Daniel R. Anderson published the results of a massive longitudinal study called "The Recontact Study" as a monograph of the Society of Research in Child Development.
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Finally, methodological research on these recontact issues is needed to assist both PIs and IRBs in their decision-making processes.
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PIs identified three broad topics that we will briefly review: (a) creating an environment for informed and voluntary consent, (b) designing appropriate participant payment, and (c) balancing privacy rights and recontact efforts.
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Comprehensive yet flexible research protocols regarding (a) informed and voluntary consent, (b) participant payment, and (c) recontact efforts are essential for securing IRB approval of longitudinal substance abuse studies.
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Balancing the interests of research participants with the needs of scientifically rigorous procedures requires compromises and affects at least three areas: (a) informed and voluntary consent, (b) participant payment, and (c) recontact efforts.
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The researcher planned a recontact with participants to gather more data for the study.
Synonyms
Calling someone again after missing their call or message
Connecting again after a time apart, often between people or places
A meeting with someone you know from before after time apart
A second attempt to contact or deal with someone after the first try
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Recontact comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the word contact meaning 'touch' or 'communication'. As a noun, a recontact is simply a later meeting or message after the first one, so it means a second or later communication.