Implementation of Tender Loving Care-Based Growth and Development Monitoring by Health Cadres

Tender Loving Care (TLC), in providing professional care, is seen as the greatest virtue dedicated to care. It is used to describe how love is shaped and refined to meet the requirements of practice. These are the values of TLC-based care, particularly in growth and development services performed by the cadres in Taman Posyandu. This research aims to describe the efforts of TLC-based early childhood growth monitoring in Taman Posyandu. It is a kind of quantitative study with a cross-sectional approach. This research was carried out in four districts (cities) in East Java with the great sample of 320 Taman Posyandu. The results revealed that most cadres were more optimal in monitoring growth activities while lacking in the ability of TLC-based early childhood development monitoring. Therefore, more effort is needed in approaching and training deeply to provide the knowledge to the cadres about the importance of serving with heart, as an effort to monitor TLC-based child development.