in community experiencing symptoms of covid-19

Background: Coronavirus is a group of viruses that can cause disease in animals or humans. Positive confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Cirebon Regency, West Java, during 1-28 August 2020 reached 193 people


INTRODUCTION
Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that  is also caused by isoman patients with severe symptoms, patient overload, scarcity of drugs and oxygen, the health system is not ready, the health sub-system of community empowerment has failed. there are still many people who still consider being exposed to the corona virus as a disgrace, so they don't want to go to health facilities. People   The causes of Covid-19 death include patients receiving late treatment due to the less than optimal level of occupancy in the treatment area and monitoring of COVID-19 patients who are self-isolating. In addition, it is also caused by severe symptoms of isoman patients, patient overload, scarcity of drugs and oxygen, the health system is not ready, community empowerment health sub system failed. there are still many people who still consider being exposed to the corona virus as a disgrace, so they don't want to go to health facilities. People who are sick in many areas, are still seen as tainted, Based on the description above, the researchers feel the need to conduct research on factors related to health service seeking behavior in people experiencing Covid-19 symptoms in Cirebon, West Java.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
This research is a descriptive study with cross-sectional design to asses how is the community behaviors in seeking health service if they experiencing the symptomps of Covid-19 in Cirebon by giving questionnaire to the respondents.  Table 1, it can be seen that the characteristics of the respondents in this study were the majority of respondents aged 20-29 years as many as 49 respondents (56.3%), most of the female sex as many as 59 respondents

Bivariate Analysis
Based on This is in accordance with research conducted by Afifah (2004)  did not seek treatment more often than those with higher education. In other words, the lower the education, the less likely it is to seek treatment. A person's level of education is closely related to the level of intelligence. The lower the education, it is assumed that it will be difficult to use logical thinking in understanding the information obtained. In the case of STD-HIV/ AIDS, respondents with lower levels of education will be more negative in their behavior, especially in terms of seeking treatment (15).
According to previous research, it was found that the level of education is one of the factors that influence a person to take advantage of health services. The level of education can make it easier for a person to perform a health behavior. Someone who is highly educated will be easy to receive and absorb new information so that knowledge becomes better in making decisions about the use of health services (16). there is a significant relationship between the severity of illness and the practice of seeking treatment. This is because if the respondent feels the disease is still mild, then they will not seek treatment. Meanwhile, if the respondent feels that his illness is severe, he will seek treatment (7).
Public perception of illness is the concept of health-ill society. The concept of community health, namely that healthy people are able to work or carry out their daily work. The concept of community pain, which is felt by someone who can no longer get out of bed, and cannot carry out his daily work. In a study, it was found that there was a relationship between the perception of pain and the utilization of services at the Poleang Barat Health Center and Lepo-Lepo Health Center with a p value of 0.000(21).
The results of this study are also in accordance with research conducted by Fatimah

CONCLUSSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Based on the table on the characteristics of the respondents, most of the respondents were