ABDIMAS: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Universitas Merdeka Malang Vol.7(4) November 2022, 768-778 p-ISSN: 2721-138X e-ISSN: 2548-7159 htp://jurnal.unmer.ac.id/index.php/jpkm Monitoring of nutritional status to children by Integrated Healthcare Center as stunting early detection Monitoring status gizi balita oleh kader posyandu sebagai upaya deteksi dini stunting Ni Ketut Erawati, Wayan Sugandini, Made Juliani Department of D3 Midwifery, Faculty of Medical, Ganesha Education University Jl. Udayana No.11 Banjar Tegal Singaraja, Buleleng, Bali, 81116, Indonesia ARTICLE INFO: Received: 2022-07-27 Revised: 2021-8-30 Accepted: 2022-10-01 Keywords: Education game, Elementary school, Herbs, Snake ladder game ABSTRACT One of the strategic steps in the efort to deal with stunting nutrition is the use of Integrated Healthcare Center (Posyandu). Posyandu as the front line that can provide information to parents about the nutritional status of children, and Posyandu components that are no less important are cadres. The skills of cadres in determining nutritional status through anthropometric measurements are needed so that they can provide appropriate information for the community, but cadre education activities related to children under fve nutrition have not been carried out for a long time. This service is carried out with the aim of providing re-education to cadres on monitoring the nutritional status of children under fve through anthropometric measurement methods. The target of this activity is the cadres of the Posyandu in Tegallinggah Village, totaling 15 people. Through counseling and practicing anthropometric measurements, it is hoped that the knowledge and skills of cadres in determining the nutritional status of toddlers will increase. Evaluation of this activity was carried out through pre-test and post-test methods on cadres and the results were obtained after being given refresher on monitoring children under fve nutrition, 80% of cadres had knowledge in the good category and 100% of cadres were able to measure Height (TB) and Weight (BB) correctly. ©2022 Abdimas: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Universitas Merdeka Malang This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) How to cite: Erawati, N. K., Sugandini, W., & Juliani, M. (2022). Monitoring of nutritional status to children by Integrated Healthcare Center as stunting early detection. Abdimas: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Universitas Merdeka Malang, 7(4), 768-778. https://doi.org/10.26905/abdimas.v7i4.8201 Corresponding Author: Ni Ketut Erawati: Tel. +62 362 22570 │E-mail: ketut.erawati@undiksha.ac.id LPPM UNMER MALANG 1. INTRODUCTION Children under fve age is an age range that experiences rapid growth and development or is often known as the golden period, and this period will greatly determine the quality of subsequent growth and development. To be able to go through this period well, children under fve need good nutrition to support the quality of their growth and development. Meeting the nutritional needs according to age will grow a quality generation and vice versa the lack of nutritional intake at this time will have an impact on the poor quality of the nation’s generation later. Nutritional problems can be caused by direct causes such as lack of nutritional intake and certain diseases, also indirect causes such as the lack of family ability to care for family members with nutritional